INDEPENDENT LABOUR CONFERENCE.
MR BURNS CRITICISED. Received April 2, 7.25 a.m. LONDON, Aprill. A demonstration at Derby is proceeding in connection with the opening of the Independent Labour P arty Conference. Mr Keir Hardie, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, claimed that his party was the only force making democracy possible, and bringing Socialism within reach. Other speakers declared that Mr John Burns was now unmasked. Instead of permeating the Liberal Party with Socialism he had become saturated with Liberal cant. Received April 2, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, April 2. The Independent Labour Conference has adopted a resolution in favour of enfranchising women.
A STINGING RETORT. Received April 2, 8.34 a.m. LONDON, April 1. At the Independent Labour Conference Mr Ramsay Macdonald, Labour member for Leicester, in his presidential address, referring to Lord Rosebery's description of their programme as confiscation, regretted that, as the critic who represented the interests of landlords' and, Jewish financiers, Lord Rosebery did not his maxims to his own conscience and class. (Lord Rosebery owns about 33,000 acres, and married a Rothschild).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8391, 3 April 1907, Page 5
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175INDEPENDENT LABOUR CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8391, 3 April 1907, Page 5
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