LABOUR CONFERENCE AT HULL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9040, 25 January 1908, Page 5

LABOUR CONFERENCE AT HULL.

VOTES WRONGFULLY CAST. DELEGATES LEAVE BEFORE VOTE IS TAKEN. - (Received January 21, 8.53 a.m. LONDON, January 23. The Amalgamated Railwaymen claim 'that their 70,000 votes were wrongly cast in favour of Mr Stephenson's motion. Mr Bowerman, M.P., states that sixty delegates left before the vote was taken. .(Mr Stephenson, representing the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, moved at the Labour Conference: — '".That in the opinion of this conference the time has arrived when the Labour party should have as a definite object the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and .exchange, to be controlled by a democratic State in the interest of the entire community and the complete emancipation of Labour from the domination of capitalism and landlordism, with the establishment of social and economic equality between itbe sexes." The resolution was carried % .5,14,000 votes to 469,000 votesj).. THE LABOUR PARTY'S EXECUTIVE. NEARLY ALL SOCIALISTS. LABOUR M.P.'S VIEWS. Received January 24, 7.35 a.m. LONDON, January 23. The Labour Party's executive is composed of all Socialists excepting five Trades Union members of the House of Commons. Mr Will Thome, M.P., declares that the Hull Conference resolution means nothing; it is merely an expression of opinion on the part of delegates favouring Socialism, ?n 1 does not affect the constitution of tie party. A similar resolution, rub.nitted hy Mr Clynes, M.P., had been passed previously, Mr Will Crooks, M.P , said he was unable to see why such a fuss was bving made. Mr Grayson, M.P., considers the resolution really significant; it shows that a majority of Trades Unionists favour Socialism as their ultimate object. The Times says:-"The conference adopted a full-blown creed of theoretical Socialism in all its crudity. The Labour mnchine has now been fairly captured by the Socialists, who openly flout all middle, moderate, courses." The Daily Chronicle says:—"Liberals must persevere in the policy of combining defence of freetrade with reasonable, just and prudent social reforms."