POLITICAL CATS – IN LABOUR PARTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18581, 2 October 1928, Page 10

POLITICAL CATS - IN LABOUR PARTY.

COMMUNISTS HAVE THEM BY TAILS.

(United Press Am.—By Eleotrlo Telegraph.—Copy right.)

(Received October 2. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Labour Conference passed a resolution by an overwhelming majority against the admission of Communists to the party’s ranks. Mr George Davis, representing the Miners' Federation, declared that the Parliamentarv partv had been lax in hunting people from the movement. The I*L.P. was called L.I.P. There were political cats with their heads in the Labour Party getting all possible, while the Communists had them by the tails. The refusal of the conference to refer back a portion of the report on the Simon Commission enabled Mr Ramsav MacDonald to refer to the Indian as the “ bottom dog ” and to the necessity for not allowing the Nationalists to predujice his case.—Australian Press Association—United Service. COALITION OF LIBERALS AND LABOUR WOULD PROVE A FAILURE. MR GEORGE LANSBURY ADDRESSES CONFERENCE. (Received October 2, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. “Any attempt to unite Labour forces with the decadent remains of Liberalism is foredoomed to failure. The Labourites are solely aiming at Socialism to which the other parties are violently opposed, consequently a coalition or combination is impossible," said Mr George Lansbury, M.P., when presiding at the Labour Party Conference in Birmingham. He declared that the Communists had entered the field against Labour both politically and industrially, accepting the theory of the organisation of action as adopted in foreign Labour. They were therefore not likely to rejoin the movement until it was altered to conform to the Communist policy. —Australian Press Association. SIMON COMMISSION A DEMOCRATIC ONE. (Received October 2, 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 1. The appointment of the Indian Commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon was the subject of a hostile motion introduced at the Labour Conference at Birmingham to-day by Mr Fenner Brockway. The motion was rejected by the enormous majority of 2,959,000 card votes against 150,000 votes. In the course of the discussion. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, emphasised the democratic character of the Commission. He said that the Labour representatives on the Commission would do their best to build a golden bridge for India, which would make India captain of her own salvation.—British Official Wireless.