ALL STRIKE" POLICY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1802, 15 July 1913, Page 5

ALL STRIKE" POLICY.

THE LABOUR SPLIT. ' y U.L.P. ACTION endorsed; \ ■ A meeting of the Wellington main branch of tho United Labour Party was held in the Trades Hall last night. Mr. D. M'Laron presided, and there was a largo attendance of members. Tho following resolution was unanimously carried:—"That this meeting of the Wellington main branch resolves to remain attached to the United Labour Party,, and. to uphold its continued existence, and that no person be admitted to, or allowed to remain, a member of the branch who does not agree with these views." It was decided that a copy of the resolution should bo sent to the provincial executive of the party. The delegates to the Unity Congress, Messrs. W. H. Hampton, M. L. A.'Rearden. and D. M'Laren, presented a report Of the proceedings of the Unity Congress, and the United Labour Party Conference. The attitude taken up by the delegates was fully endorsed by the meeting, and tho reports were adopted. The points emphasised by the delegates, Messrs. Rearden. and Hampton, were that the Unity Congress was manipulated by the Federation of Labour, assisted by a few men who had deserted from the principles of. the United Labour Party constitution and policy; that tho closure was applied constantly to prevent fair discussion; that the official reporting of the conference proceedings was garbled and or.e-sided, and that this was due to the fact that the committee appointed reporters who\manipulated tho reports, so as to present only one side of tho position; that the conference had decided on a policy of industrial unionism clouded with much vague language, but sufficiently clear to show that the strike weapon was to bo used, locally, generally, and nationally, under the control of executive authority, and without the right of selfgovernment being exercised by the members of the unions affected. "Misleading the Workers." This policy of industrial unionism with its ultimate purpose of taking property by force was regarded as being so opposed to the principles of tho U.L.P. that tho delegates had opposed tho Bame right through the conference. They considered that any political action based upon a policy of direct action and revolutionary Jiu rpose was simply a sham, and was misending the workers in regard to their true interests. It was. further pointed out that tho industrial (institution odopted_ would destroy distinct trades' federation,?', trades and labour councils, and the rights of the members of all' unions, ajid was, therefore, rather a policy of disruption than one of unity. The delegates considered it was best to do as the U.L.P. conference had done, and they' resolved > to continue ns a distinct party, on constitutional lines, to uphold trades unionism in the field of industry, and with a definite, responsible and constitutional action in the field of politics. 'V