LABOUR MINISTER RESIGNS
MR. JOHN HODGE BREAKS WITH BRITISH LABOUR PARTY. ~ London, July 22. Mr. John Hodge (Minister of Pensions), speaking at Middlesbrough, announced that ho was leaving the Labour Party, as he was no longer ablo to support the party's programme. Ho thought the timo had arrived to tako a vote whe-' ther to continue their affiliation. Ho did not belwvo the labour Party represented tho trade union feeling' of tho country. It was monstrous to think we should impose no indemnities for the fiendish crimes Germany had committed on sea and land.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. [Mr. Hodge wtu. Labour Minister in 191 C, and was appointed Minister of Pensions in 1017. He has been Labour member *or Gorton Division, Lancashire since 1908. Ho was secretary of the British .Steel Smelters' Mill, Iron, Tinplate, and Kindred Trndee Association, and president of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. He lias boon 'president of tho Trades Congress (1892), and twice president of the Labour Representation Committee.]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 5
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164LABOUR MINISTER RESIGNS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 5
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