LABOUR PARTY.
LAMBETH CONFERENCE RULE ENFORCING DISCIPLINE WITHIN PARTY. OPPOSITION TO FRANCHISE BILL. By Ifelegraph—Press Association— Copyright LONDON, January 3U. Tho Labour Party Conference at Lambeth adopted a rule 0 f pline within the party in tho House of Commons. , w + Mr Will Thorne, M.P. iar . Ham, and thirteen Socialists, said they would never agree with tho twe yfioven trade unionists on economic questions. , • The Parliamentary party was instructed, by 850 votes to _43i, to P pose any Franchise Bill which excludes women. . , , Mr Philip Snowden, M.P. for Blackburn, said that Labour should demand a Government measure. The women s position was infinitely worse than a year ago. A divided Cabinet must not obstruct the expressed will of a majority of tbo House of Commons. “GREATER FARCE THAN USUAL.” LABOUR PAPER’S DESCRIPTION OF CONFERENCE. LONDON, January 30. Tho Labourite newspaper, the “Daily Herald,” describes the conference at Lambeth as a greater farce than usual. The delegates are only there to register tko decrees of tbo inner caucus.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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