ANTI-WAR CONGRESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 8

ANTI-WAR CONGRESS

DELEGATES AT WELLINGTON. OPPONENTS OF FASCISM. ( Par Frees Association ). WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. Over 50 delegates, representing trade unions, anti-war movements, women’s welfare organisations and branches of the Communist and Labour Parties throughout New Zealand, are attending the first All-New Zealand Congress Against War and Fascism on Saturday and to-day, in addition to Senator A. Rae, Labour member of the Australian Federal Parliament.

Mr. W. H. Nugent, organiser of the corresponding Australian movement, said that the meeting was the prelude to a great number of such gatherings, and the building in New Zealand of the largest organisation of its kind. A resolution was passed pledging those present to organise, the great masses of the people of New Zealand into one great united organisation in opposition to war and Fascism so that they would be able to act if called upon to do so with other sections of the world movement in preventing war and the spread of Fascism. With one dessentient, a motion protesting at the Government’s prolonging of its term of office, was passed. A programme for the movement was presented, and was held over until today for adoption. Strong disapproval of the, imprisonment of Gerald Griffen and. Egon Kisch, and the attitude of the New Zealand Government .in the matter, was expressed by the Congress, which received messages from both.