AN EXTREME SECTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6

AN EXTREME SECTION

FEDERATION OF STUDENTS’ SOCIETIES ! ATTACK ON BRITISH POLICY. DISOWNED BY DEPUTY-LEADER OF LABOUR PARTY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY. January 3. A conference of the University Labour Federation—an organisation based on students’ societies_ in United Kingdom universities with Labour sympathies, which has not infrequently found itself at variance with official Labour Party policy—today passed a resolution which urges that the task oi the Labour Movement is to lead the working class in a determined struggle against what is describes as a war for profits and world domination, for which it holds “Hitler, Fascism and British and French imperialism ’ equally responsible. 'Mr Arthur Greenwood, DeputyLeader of the Labour Party, has severed his connection with the organisation in protest against the resolution. Mr Greenwood said: “The resolution is in fact in contradiction to the established and reaffirmed policy of organised Labour. It decries the policy If the leaders of the Labour Movement and trade unions and endangers the whole future of the Labour Movement. As I am whole-heartedly in support oi Labour’s policy, overwhelmingly supported by the rank and file, and as one on whom the censure of the Federation Executive has now fallen. I feel it necessary to resign the presidency of the pederation.