CRITICS OF LABOUR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 10

CRITICS OF LABOUR

3.15 P.M. EDITION

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. RESOLUTIONS FOR DEBATE. ANTI-FASCIST VIEWS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 14, 10.45 a.m. ;• RUGBY. Aug. 13.

Holidays with pay and a shorter working week will be the principal subjects of the industrial policy for discussion a.t the 69th meeting of the Ti-ade Union Congress at Norwich next month.

On the political side a large number of resolutions will deal with the attitude of the Labour Party to the Government’s rearmament programme. In these there is much criticism which, in view of last year’s proceedings, it is far from certain that the congress will endorse. One of these is the decision of the Parliamentary Labour Party last month not to go into division in tho lobby against the Defence Estimates. One resolution condemns the aggressive aims which it attributes to the “Fascist Powers” and calls for the strengthening of the League of Nations, and goes on, to state that while recognising that the policy of collective security requires the armed strength of “the peace-loving Powers, they must criticise tho Labour failure to oppose the arms plans of the National Government on the grounds of the latter’s alleged sympathy with the “Fascist Powers” and its “weakness in support of real collective security.