LABOUR AND EMPIRE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 9

LABOUR AND EMPIRE.

POLICY FOR CONFERENCE. LONDON, June S. A feature of the agenda of the annual couferoncc of the Labour Party. to be hold in September, is the exe*u tive'a resolution containing:—"A Labour Policy for the British Convwonwoalth of Nations." Tho resolution urges the Government to call an Imperial Conference to aul»mil proposals for closer personal contact between the Governments, and th.> representation of Opposition, as well as of Government, opinion at Imperial Conferences; a survey of the natural resources of tho Empire as a whok', with a view to scientific direction of their use for the benefit of the people* and tho prevention of uneconomic exploitation in tho interests of private capitalists. Tho executive will also call foe a survey of the land resources of ta« British Commonwealth of Nation*, will* a view to tho subordination of the private uso of land to a seicntifie redistri button of the population and for c,»U»vatiou to provide an increasing proportion of food for the population of th* British Commonwealth and of raw materials for its industries; for Governmental purchnso of Dominions' food for tho purpose of stabilisation of prices; and for Governmental provision of marketing facilities in Great Britain for ovorsoas producers. *