BRITISH LABOUR.
DISAPPROVES CONFISCATION. “CAPITAL CRACKING UP.” (Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, April 14.—Mr Hugh Dalton, M.P., at the London Conference, movpd the adoption of the majority report favouring the payment of compensation to the owners of nationalised industries, and declaring confiscation inexpedient. Mr Maxton strongly opposed the proposal for compensation, and declared that profit was robbery. He did not believe nationalisation would occur gradually. Capitalism was cracking up. The problem was how to create a new social system on the ruin of the old one. The conference decided to refer the report back to the branches. SECBET DIPLOMACY. (Received 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 15.—The conference concluded after resolutions were passed protesting against the Government’s return to secret diplomacy and directing that a resolution be submitted to the next Labour Party Conference: “That a Labour Government should be free to repudiate any secret treaty or agreement made by its predecessor. ’ ’ —(Reuter.)
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Wairarapa Age, 16 April 1925, Page 5
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