LABOUR SPLIT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 13

LABOUR SPLIT.

MR. SNOWDEN ON THE "FROTHY 1 DEMAGOGUES."

SjMr.: Philip Snowden, M.P.. has written an ; articlo for the ''Christian, Commonwealth,": (doaling-with the,circumstances whioh led up to' the resignation, of the Parliamentary mem-; bers of "t%& council. '•■.:Mr..-Snowdefl;says that; >.throughout the past year a 'Sustained attaok has.been.mido'upon thoBC members to which,' owing -to, their Parlaamentary:duties, they' havo. been unable to reply.' One-third of the : branches of the.party are .new, and members know -little or nothing of the work .the "old; gang," as they.contemptuously call the. old members of the council, have done. The council would have been grossly culpablo »if they ;had'not'taken the action they did with re--'gard,• to. Mr. Grayson, and in refusing '. sanction.tothat/action, the delegates' at: tho-'.con-: forenco were "openly affronting the: men wlio tried,to keep tho reputation of Socialism clean, who had tried to make it possible foran intelligent: porson: to remain a, Socialist, and who had tried to insist upon discipline within;,the party.ir Mr.' Snowdon thinks it is a pity:the'"orisis" did hot arise sooner.. The Independent Labour party, he says, "has no use for frothy demagogues who mako up for, their, entiro.lack;'ot. constructive ability by an extensive: vocabulary. Dissentients must choose'-between.leaving the party or conforming to its policy and/methods. ,, ■■";•'