IF LABOUR IS KEPT OUT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17223, 14 December 1923, Page 10

IF LABOUR IS KEPT OUT.

* PARTY LEADER’S WARDING Sjf. Uelegx aph—Press Association—Copyright Renter’s Telegrams. (Received December 14, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. r-jMr Ramsay Macdonald, in an article joiced at the Labour triumphs at the yells. He declares that class and self®u interests in the passionate hate of |yW>our have thrown off even the appearance of decency. He warns them tnot if their attempts to divide the nation on the lines of property are feuc<Tdssful in keeping Labour out the eventual result will be to bring in Labonr far rougher in mind and temper than the one which won the signal victories last week.

CONFIDENCE IN LEADER. •y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received December 14, 12.10 pjfai.) LONDON, December 13. A joint meeting of the Executive of the Labour Party and the general council of the Trades Union Congress in London passed a resolution expressing complete confidence in Mr Ramsay Macdonald as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and also confidence that if he is called to take high office he will have the support of the entire Labour movement. The conference also passed a resolution asking that, in view of the extreme gravity of unemployment, the Government’s plans to deal with this the gravest of all the problems confronting the nation—should be immediately announced. #