UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 3

UNITED LABOUR PARTY.

-o WILL FIGHT THE REVOLUTIONARIES. A well-attended representative meeting of delegates of the United Labour Party was held at the Trades Hall last night, tho president (the Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C.) occupying the chair. Mr. Hampton moved, and Mr. Merritt seconded, v.lie following resolution:— "That in the opinion of this meeting of delegates it is advisable that the United Labour Party should maintain its identity, and that tho whole of the branches in affiliation thereto be communicated with." After an animated discussion, in which the great majority of the speakers strongly maintained the necessity for tho continued existence of the party as a l'ailyiug-ground for the great sane, constitutional, non-revolutionary majority of tho workers of New Zealand, the resolution was carried amid great enthusiasm, there being only a handful of dissentients. Among the supporters of the motion were Mr. Hindmarsh, M.P., and the Hon. Georgo Fowlds, the latter of whom said that he had attended the Congress as a delegate from tho Auckland District Labour Council of the United Labour Party, and he was very certain that the opinion of tho majority of the members of that council, ot the Labour _ Party generally and of the workers of New Zealand as a whole, was absolutely against revolutionary ideas anci methods. (Applause.) On the motion of Mr. D. M'Laren, it was resolved that a provisional committee, consisting of the Hon. J. T. Paul, and Messrs. W. A. Veitch, M.P., W. Svkes, M. T. Forde, G. D. Macfarland, Hampton, L. M. A. Reardon, Withey, and the mover, with power to add to their number, be appointed to carry out the purpose of the previous resolution. On the motion of Mr. M. J. Reardon, Messrs. Paul, Forde, and Withy were instructed to draft a brief reasoned statement of the position taken up by the parfev, and to submit it to the variouß affiliated unions and other organisations throughout the Dominion. By a further resolution, moved by Sir. Fairclough, they were also instructed to hand the statement so drafted to the press for the information of tho public. , , , The Hon. J. T. Paul was re-elected president. Mr. Fowlds moved that a very hearty vote of thanks be accorded the Hon. J. I. Paul (the president) and Mr. Arthur M'Carthy (tho secretary) for their very valuable voluntary services to the United Labour Party during tho past eighteen months; and in doiug so paid a tributo to the ability and devotion of Mr. Paul. The resolution was carried by acclamation, and the meeting broke up with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," and three hearty cheers for tho United Labour l'arty.