LABOUR CONFERENCE
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ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.
AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION,
(Received Last Night 11.30 p.m.)
LONDON, April 18. The Independent Labour Conference is sitting at Birmingham. Mr W. Anderson, in his Presidential address, said that Sir Edward Grey's speech came as a ray of light, heralding a new dawn. There was, he .said, more need of an Anglo-Ger-man agreement than of the present Government," which had been influenced by scares, and by a grossly imaginative estimate of Germany's ship-building. . The most untutored "Jingo" could not have outstripped the Hon. R. McKenna. An animated discussion took place on a resolution instructing the Labour members of the House of Commons to vote on every subject regard, less of the consequences to the Ministry. . . Many speakers blamed the Party for not supporting-Mr Keir Bardie's protest concerning the Cambrian strike. Mr Ramsay Macdonald explained that he was afraid to censure Mr Winston Churchill, which would endanger the Government. The debate on the resolution was adiourned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10217, 19 April 1911, Page 5
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166LABOUR CONFERENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10217, 19 April 1911, Page 5
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