Socialists and the Empire
Sir, —The Socialist (Labour) Party in England at its recent conference made it clear that so far as that party is concerned the British Empire can dissolve and the sooner the better. Mr. William Mellor, a prominent spokesman, declared in October last: “I will do all I can to encourage the disruption of the British Empire, because it wtrtikl mean the disruption of the capitalist system.” This hostility to the Empire has been pronounced for many years, and the debates show it to be as strong as ever. Race and language will not count at all; the Dominions must rank as foreign States. The New Zealand Labour-Socialist Party have the same objective as the British party. Some years ago its declarations against the Empire were on all fours with that of Mr. Mellor, quoted above. Of late years there has been silence on this point, thus it is instructive and useful to have so clear a statement of the Socialist intentions toward our Empire as that given at the recent English conference and in the writings of their leaders.—We are. etc., N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE. Wellington, January 25.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 11
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191Socialists and the Empire Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 11
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