BRITISH EMPIRE LABOUR.
COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE. INDIAN DELEGATES WITHDRAW. OBJECTION TO SIMON’S MISSION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United service.) LONDON, July 5. The Indian delegates have withdrawn from the Commonwealth of Labour Conference, as a protest against the appointment of members of the Labour Party to the Indian Commission. Mr Chamanal, speaking at the conference, criticised tile Labour Party’s treatment of India when the Labour Government was in power. lie said the Indian Labour Parly was opposed to Sir John Simon’s mission, because India was not represented on it. It demanded an Anglo-Indian round-table conference, to discover the best method of immediately giving self-government to India.
Mr George Lansbury, Labour member of the House of Commons for Row and Bromley, stales that the Indian delegates withdrew because tile conference, in conformity with its decision to pass no resolutions, declined to adopt one in relation to the Indian Commission. He said the Labour Party was prepared to co-operate her selfgovernment and political and economic freedom, and equality with the rest of the Empire.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17447, 6 July 1928, Page 7
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