LABOUR PARTY'S PROTEST.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14888, 30 January 1914, Page 7

LABOUR PARTY'S PROTEST.

MR HARCOTJRT DECLINES TO RECEIVE A DEPUTATION. LONDON,. January 28. Mr Keir' Hardie, speaking at Glasgow, pointed out that tho Act of Indemnity, which the South African Parliament is to be asked to pass, required the King's signature. Viscount Gladstone could refuse to sign it until the Act was sent Home for consideration. 'The British Labour Conference, sitting at Glasgow, condemned the South African Government's suppression of trades unionism by armed force as a violation of the elementary rights of citizenship, and demanded Lord Gladstone's immediate recall. The Johannesburg correspondent of th© "Daily Express" reports that the Government has discovered documentary evidence of a plot for a revolutionary movement to be entered upon next April, with the object of setting up a Labour Government in South Africa. Mr Browulie, chairman of the Amalgamated Engineers' Society, announced that all the officials in South Africa had been arrested, and the books and funds of the union confiscated. They wero unable to cable funds to South Africa for fear that they would be confiscated also. Mr Harcourt refused to receive a deputation, saying that the matter was | solely within the competence of the Union Government, but he promised to obtain particulars from Viscount Gladstone.