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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 7

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Labour Decides Against Truck With Communists.

"HAD THEM BY THE TAILS."

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. The Labour Conference at Birmingham passed a resolution by an overwhelming majority against the admission of Communists to the party's ranks. Mr. George Davis, representing the Miners' Federation, declared that the Parliamentary party had been lax in hunting people from the movement. The I.L.P. was called the L.I.P. There were political cats with their heads in the Labour party getting all that was possible while the Communists had them by the tails. The conference's refusal to refer back a portion of the report on the Simon Commission enabled Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald to refer to the Indian as "the bottom dog" and to the necessity for not allowing the Nationalists to prejudice his case.

SIMON COMMISSION.

Hostile Motion At Labour Conference. DEFEATED BY 810 MAJORITY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, October 1. The appointment of the Indian Commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon was the subject of a hostile motion introduced at the Labour Conference at Birmingham, to-day, by Mr. Fenner Brockway. The motion was rejected by the enormous majority of 2,959,000 card votes against 150,000. In the course of the discussion Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, the Labour leader, emphasised the democratic character of the commission. He said that the Labour representatives on the commission would do their best to build a golden bridge for India which would make India the captain of her own salvation.

LABOUR AND LIBERAL.

Any Attempt To Unite Parties

Doomed To Failure.

SOCIALISM THE GOAL. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, October 1. "Any attempt to unite the Labour forces with the decadent remains of Liberalism is foredoomed to failure. Labourites are solely aiming at Socialism to which other parties are violently opposed. Consequently coalition and combination is impossible." So said Mr. G. Lansbury, M.P., when presiding at the Labour Party Conference at Birmingham. He declared that Communists had entered the field against Labour, both politically and industrially, by accepting the theory of the organisation of action in foreign Labourism. They were, therefore, unlikely to rejoin the movement until it was altered to the Communist policy.

T.U.C. CHAIRMAN.

MR. BEN FILLETT CHOSEN. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. Mr. Ben Tillett has been elected chairman of the general council of the T.U.C.