LABOUR PARTY CONFERS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23975, 16 June 1943, Page 3

LABOUR PARTY CONFERS

POLICY AFTER THE WAR ELECTORAL TRUCE EXTENDED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 14. When the forty-second, annual conference of the Labour Party opened in London to-day, more than 1000 delegates from all parts of the_ country attended, and the public galleries were crowded to hear the leader _ of _ the party (Mr C. R. Attlee) give his views on post-war reconstruction. Mr Attlee said that all the resources which had been used in war would be used in peace for the common good. He said that the Labour Party had co-operated with the other parties in the huge task of winning the war. After the war, he said, the Labour Party would not allow the country to return to its former system, but would fight for reconstruction in the interests of,the people. Another speaker was the Minister of Home Security (Mr Herbert Morrison), who said that when the war was won. Labour must be prepared to strike against the old policy of monopolies. A resolution to end the electoral truce was defeated by 2,243,000 votes to 374,000. The conference adopted the executive committee’s report stating that Labour adherence to the truce and participation in the present Government were contributions to the national war effort. Mr J. J. Tinker, M.P., said that he opposed the resolution on behalf of 600,000 miners. To break the truce now would delay victory, and no man or woman would forgive the Labour Party for that Speakers supporting the motion to end the truce said that the truce was devitalising the Labour Party. Lord Stabolgi said: The electoral truce humbugs the electorate. The Labour Party is dying on its feet. Rumours have been published that the Labour leaders have arranged for a continuance of the war-time coalition after the war. Mr Attlee said that there was no truth in that. He added that the ending of the truce would definitely bring about the end of the present Government. “Britain is not so free from danger that we can afford to throw away the unity which has carried us so far,” he said. Mr Attlee warned the conference that unity was still vitally important. It was international unity and efficiency that was beating the dictatorships. NEW ARGENTINE DECREE MESSAGE FROM VATICAN HELD UP (Rcc. 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK. June 14. The Holy See was the first sufferer under a new dectee prohibiting the use of coded messages by wireless to and from Argentina, says the Buenos Aires correspondent of the “New York Times.” The Argentine Foreign Minister (Senor Estorni) has revealed that the Holy See decided to recognise the' new Argentine Government last Thursday, the day on which the *decree was published. When the Vatican’s code message to the Apostolic Nuncio arrived in Buenos Aires it was held up at the Central Telegraph Office, where it remained until the - Foreign Ministry was informed of it yesterday. Instructions were immediately given to deliver the message “as a special exception and mark of deference to the Holy See.” The episode demonstrated that the prohibition of codes was immediately and impartially applied against all diplomatic missions in Buenos Aires.