IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1926, Page 5

IN SOUTH AFRICA.

LABOUR PARTY TROUBLES. SOME RECRIMINATIONS. Press Association—Electric Telecraoii— Copyrlg (Received Tuesday, 9.25 tun.) •CAPETOWN, Monday. The annual conference of the South African Labour Party was marked by protracted recriminations, mainly in connection with allegations of intrigue within the party. Minister Crcswell, Leader of the Parly, declared the last eight or , nine months had .shown the party was' far from being behind the Ministers. -Messrs Creiswell and Boydell were after that subjected to much hostile criticism, a section demanding that Ministers .should ivot be elected to the National Council on the- ground tlna,t the rank and file should dictate the Party 's policy. ■ Finally the conference resolved, by 40 to 29, to suspend the 'standing orders in regard to the. method of electing the Council. . Further dissatisfaction was Voiced in relation to a motion declaring that the Nationalist La,hour., agreement, known Mis “the Pact,” was fully justified, •speakers urging that Labourites did not enjoy tlveir share of Government appointments; also that the Government bad failed to fulfil Labourite expectations as regards a. State Bank, civil 'servants’ salaries, land other matters. The motion was carried*after the deletion of the word “fully.”—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. LEADERSHIP IMPERILLED. ' (Received Tucsdav, 11.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Monday. The Labour Conference continued its sittings and the proceedings were more 'harmonious. The left wing of the Party, although it failed to secure the exclusion of Members of Parliament from the National Council, secured control of the Council, whose first act has been to dcposj* Senator Briggs, chairman of the the Party, which he has held for the •'conference, from the chairmanship of past eight years, though his re-election was proposed lie Mr. Crcswell. This is regarded as,ominous, and it is believed imperils Mr. Crcswell’s leadership of the Party. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.