AFFILIATION OPPOSED

Chronicle (Levin), 13 June 1946, Page 5

AFFILIATION OPPOSED

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L - - - - Communism A Conspiracy— Mr. Morrison BRITISH LABOUR'S DECISION

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■ Reeeived- Thursday, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, June 12. The Labour Party Congress defeated. a motion for affiliation1 vith the Communists by 2,768,000 /Otes to 468,000, while 2,413 votes. .vere cast for and 667,000 against a :esolution by the national execuJve to alter the constitution so that .n future the party would not j,dmit any other separate politieal party to affiliation. Mr. Herbert Morrison, speaking _or the executive on Communist jflliauon, said there were fundanental diiferenees between tne .espective politieal conceptions of ffie 1 Labour and Communist /arties. "V/e believe in Lruiy conAitutional government, Parliament xnd democracy, and have every .eason to believe that the Comnunist Party aoes neither. They .to not believe m a pariiamentary .nstitution as we understand it. We ^elieve in the right of every citi;en to repiace the Government if msired." • The Communist Party in the nakmg of its own poliey, from the ;enerai secretary of the politicai .ureau down to the rank and file, /as a dictatorship, said Mr. Morison. Tne party got its orders trom ffiout, and had no rights in shap_ig the poliey. Labour • held that lemoeraey, .lioerty and the prinlple of self-government would not .xix with dictatorship. Therefore, xiey aflirmed that it was inconsistnt for the Laoour and Communist rarties to live in the same politieal amily. "We have formed tho pinion that the Comniunist Party .o not only a politieal party, but a .onspiraey," Mr. Morrison concludd. "They have their party mem,ers open and avowed, but also eere'G mombers in various Labour jrganisations and elsewhere. They ssue secret instructions to their eople as to what they are to do, nd the amount of money tney get iold of is in itseif a matter of coniderable mystery." ^ ^ ^ JT-