THE LABOUR PARTY
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT UNITY AGAINST TARIFF (British Official Wireless.) (Received 6th October, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, sth October. Mr. Arthur Henderson, at the Labour Party Conference at Scarborough, suggested during a speech that a proclamation dissolving Parliament might be issued on Wednesday. He therefore urged that tho conference should be shortened.
The speech of the chairman of the National Labour Executive, Mr. Stanley Hirst, was mainly notable for a strong opposition to any tariff policy. He also pleaded for unity in the Labour Party which would be most essential during the approaching election. By an overwhelming majority the Conference passed a resolution empowering the executive of the Parliamentary Labour Party to impose discipline on all Labour members in the House of Commons, but Mr. Tenner Brockway, chairman of the Independent Labour Party, later said that 14 of the 16 members of that body in the House would certainly not accept this ruling and would continue to act indopondently.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 7
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