“NO GROVELLING”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 9

“NO GROVELLING”

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA LABOUR LEADER’S ADVICE By Cable. — Pi~ess Aasitciation.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday. “I have seen no change of heart in the Third International. Don’t send us grovelling to people who only kick us again. Zinovieff already has declared that the only unity possible must be based on Communism and Leninism. It is not the Russians to whom we object, but to mixing like with unlike,” declared Mr. C. T. Cramp, National Union of Railwaymen, opposing the extremist motion in favour of the linking up of international workers, at the British Labour Party Conference. The motion was rejected by 1,381,000 to 1,071,000. A lively uproar occurred when Mr. G. J. Cook, miners’ secretary, rose to oppose unification of the National Independent Labour Parties. His own colleague, Mr. Herbert Smith, miners’ president, moved the previous question. A heated scene followed, the miners’ delegates shouting “Smith does not speak for the miners,” but Mr. Smith’s motion was agreed to by 2,068,000 to 1,433,000.The leader of the party, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, urged the necessity for getting down to realities on the question of an understanding with Russia. He said: “To those who are always talking of defending Russia I would say the most ineffective way of doing so is to give her excuses for continuing her wrong international policy. Russia has taken no effective step to get into friendly relationship with the States of Europe. Again and again the question has been raised and pressed on the Russian Government, but no satisfactory answer has been given.” Mr. MacDonald said before there was a revision of the Versailles Treaty “we must ensure that we are safe from the danger of war.” He added: “I say to my Russian colleagues, ‘Abandon Imperialistic ideas, for Imperialism is the attribute not only of Toryism, but also of revolution.’ ” of revolution.”—A. and N.Z.

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY NEW EXECUTIVE MEMBERS By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Friday. Among the newly-elected members of the executive of the Labour Party are Mr. Oswald Mosley, member of the House of Commons for Smethwick, and Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, member for New-castle-upon-Tyne. The chairman is Mr. George Lansbury, member for Bow and Bromley.—A. and N.Z. Mr. George Lansbury was born in Suffolk in 1859. He had an elementary education, and is now a timber merchant in Whitechapel. He has held many local Government offices in East London, and was elected as Labour M.P. for Bow and Bromley in 1910, for which constituency he now sits. Mr. Oswald Mosley is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, a wealthy baronet. He was formerly in the 16th Lancers, and served in the war. He married a daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, and was at one time a Conservative member of the House of Commons. Mr. C. P. Trevelyan is the eldest son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bt. He was formerly a Liberal member of the House of Commons, and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, but he resigned this post when Britain decided to enter the war.