BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1924, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

iUBTUALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE. WILL NOT TOLERATE DICTATION I .ON DON, Jan. <l. Addressing the minimi conference ol the Scottish Independent. Laboili Party at Edinburgh, a Commoner. Mi William Martin, said that a I,about Government would not tolerate dictation by any oilier party. It would retain its independence and tackle Ms political programmes with undimiiiislied spirit, lie emphasised the fact that Labour was the strongest political party in Scotland and therefore, it they had Horne- Rule in Scotland the Bed Flag of Socialism would -i .t now lie flowing over the Scottish Parliament House. The conference resolved to demand relief of tho distress in the A\ esthighlinuls which the speakers described ; s a disgrace to a civilised nation, adding that the people refused to live on charity.

Another resolution was carried deploring the Government's failure to deal with lincm.plovment '. generally and declaring the Government's nstctiacism of Russia aggravates the unemployment |»rol>lem. The conference also demanded that the Government refrain from helping the Trench militnrv machine in tho Ruhr.

I,ABOER'S INTENTIONS. LONDON. January o>. The lion. J. R.. dynes in the ‘Sunday Express" says that Labour will not do anything without evidence of the public consent. It will build up a Labour Party which is tho product of British and not of foreign., growth, though consisting in the main of working folk. It has latterly attracted numbers of men and women of other classes who are sick of ugly sights and feel the resistance of the reactionary process more virtually than a dread of the Labour Party.

MR GARVIN’S VIEW. LONDON, January o. Mr J. 1.. Garvin, in the “Observer’’, says that the first question confronting Labour will bo that of which Labour is thinking the least, namely the British Empire. A repudiation of the results of the Imperial Conference would be deeply repugnant to the genera! spirit and the interests of the British Commonwealth.