LABOUR PARTY IN ENGLAND.
aN INTERESTING LETTER.
THE APPROACHING VISIT TO AUSTRALIA.
Recieved March 8, 9.52 p.m. SYDNEY, March 8. " Mr J. C. Watson (Leader of the Labour Party in the Federal Parliament), has received a letter from Mr Ramsay McDonald, Secretary of the British Labour Representaton Committee, and after reference to the overwhelming successes of Labour at the recent elecHons in England, he sai'S, 'we are n w anxious to meet our colonial friends with a view to ooming to an understanding with the democratic and labour forces in the Empire, as we consider this to be the step, which the Labour movements at Home aud in the colonies should take." He gives an assurance on behalf of the Labour Party, that it ha 9 no intention of interfering with "your fiscal polioy. It recognises that this matter is for yourselves, aud yourselves alone. Nor does it wish to interfere in any question, which is internal to your colony; only we have four main objects in view; to rescue the Empire and the Impeirial spirit from being exploded by the reio - tionary and anti-social classes at home, to make the Empire stand for peace aud democratic justice in the eyes of the whole world, to study various sooiai experiments, which have been started in the colonies, and to get our colonial fellowworkers to understand the Labour movement in the Motherland Country, and to feel a share in its forunes." The letter adds that it is probable three or four Labour members will visit the colonies this year, after the Parliamentary session is over. During the visit they will be willing to address one or two mepfcinga in a few of the principal towns, and would be glad to meet delegates elected by the chief trades and labour organisations to confer with them on matters of common interest. . Mr McDonald aska if the visit, supposing it can be arranged, would be acceptable, and that some representative body should officially make arrangements for receiving the visitors.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7982, 9 March 1906, Page 5
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335LABOUR PARTY IN ENGLAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7982, 9 March 1906, Page 5
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