LABOUR’S ANGRY LEADERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17774, 10 October 1927, Page 9

LABOUR’S ANGRY LEADERS.

Protest By Conference. UNDERMINING WORKERS’ FAITH. By Cabls —Prsa* Association —Copyrlfbt. Sydney “ Sun ” Service. (Received October 9, s’® p.m.) LONDON, October 7. The Blackpool Labour Conference adopted a resolution, instructing the Executive to take action to prevent Labour leaders and members of the House of Commons, publicly attacking each other.

One of the speakers declared that the spectacle "of leaders slanging each other in the capitalistic press, for personal gain, was undermining the workers’ faith in the movement, and it ought to be checked.

ANOTHER SORRY SCENE. EXTREMISTS SOUNDLY DEFEATED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyriehl. Australian and N.Z. A«»oeiatlcs. LONDON, October 7. A lively uproar occurred at the Labour Conference when Mr A. J. Cook rose to oppose the unification of the National and Independent Labour Parties. His own colleague, Mr Herbert Smith, moved “the previous question,” and there was a heated scene, the miners’ delegates shouting: “Mr Smith does not speak for the miners.” Mr Smith’s motion, however, was agreed to by 2,068,000 to 1,433,000. Mr C. T. Cramp, opposing an extremist motion in favour of linking up with the “international workers,” said: “I have seen no change of heart in the Third! International. Don’t send us grovelling to people who will only kick us again. M. Zinovieff has already declared that the only unity must be based on Communism and Leninism. It is not the Russians to whom I object, but the mixing of the like with the unlike.” The motion was rejected by 1,381,000 to 1,071,000.