LABOUR CONGRESS.
AU Will be Disciplined Alike. LOX’DOX. October 2. An animated discussion occurred on a motion to refer back the section of the report dealing with a circular in which the executive urged members to refrain from assisting to establish Communist and other special industrial political organisations, pursuable through trades unions or the Labour Party. Mr Simpson (East Ham) contended that well-known people who were busy with outside bodies should leave the Labour Party “if the umbrella was insufficiently big.” Mr Pugh (Bristol! declared that if it was wrong for Labourites to appear on an anti-war platform, it was equally wrong for them to participate in meetings with Tory major-generals, or to be Rotarians or Free Masons.
Mr Herbert Morrison, replying for the executive, was loudly cheered when he declared that outside organisations came and went like burglars, reappearing under a new name when discovered. He added: “ When the enforcement of discipline is necessary, everybody, whether a peer or a parliamentary candidate, will be treated alike.” The conference rejected the motion.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 884, 4 October 1933, Page 2
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