LABOR CONFERENCE
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Oct. 5. There was a wild scene at the Blackpool Labour Party Conference, when women delegates attempted to make birth control a party plank against the decision of the executive. Immediately a delegate opposed the proposal “as a member of an Irish Catholic family.” Feeling ran high, when a remark by a Commoner, Jack Jones, angered the Conference. A. J. Cook rushed to the platform shouting “You fool, you fool, you big fool, you fool of the Labour Party withdraw.” Jones refusing to withdraw invited the delegate to try to throw him out. “They can’t muzzle me in the Commons, and I won’t he muzzled here.” Pandemonium reigned until Jones withdrew without an apology. Eventually the Conference defeated by 2,885,030 votes to 225,000 an attempt to refer the subject back to the executive.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1927, Page 2
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