BRITISH LABOUR PARTY

West Coast Times, 19 April 1911, Page 3

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY

SPEECHES AT THE CONFERENCE,

r PI If.IIGRAPIi —PFTt PUBS A?sncl»"'.-I LONDON, April, 18. Tlio Independent Labour Party’s conference is proceeding at Birmingham Mr. W .Anderson, the president in the course of his address, said that Sir Edward Grey’s recent speech on Arbitration came as a ray of light, heralding a new dawn. What was more needed than anything, however, was an Anglo-German arbitration agreement. The present Government, ho said, had been intiuenced to a considerable degree by the scares and grossly imaginative statements regarding Germany’s shipbuilding. “The most untutored Jingo,” he remarked, “ could not have outstripped the Right Hon. Mr. McKenna.” An animated discussion took place on the question of instructing the Labour members of Parliament to vote on every subject regardless of the conse'quences to the Ministry. Many speakers blamed the Labour Party for not supporting Mr. Keir Hardie’s protest as to the use of the military by the Government in connection with the Cambrian colliers’ strike. Mr. Ramsay McDonald (Chairman i of the Labour Party) explained that they had been-afraid that to have censured Mr. Chnrchill would have endangered the Government. The debate was adjourned.