SOCIALIST CONGRESS.
MORE DISORDER.
MR HYNDMAN ADVOCATES A STRONG NAVY.
(Received May 13, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. At the British Socialist Party's Con gross at Blackpool, the disorders which marked the opening proceedings were continued. Mr Henry Hyndman, Chairman of the party, supported a strong Navy. The question was hotly discussed. Mr Hyndman undertook to express his opinions in Ins private capacity. A resolution by Mr Hyndman denouncing Mr Lloyd George and the Government for raising the Plimsol! line, thus dooming large numbers of seamen to death, was carried. A resolution proposing the ejection of the chairman tor insulting delegates was negatived. (Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock.) LONDON, May 13. The Socialist Conference at Blackpool eulogised the militant suffragists' work, ajid unanimously declared that offenders should be treated as political offenders.
COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. (Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock:) .CONDON, May 13. At the Socialists Conference tlie Industrial Council passed a unanimous vote against compulsory arbitration in regard to disputes. The representatives of capital and labour were opposed on different grounds to Sir George Askwith's protween England and Germany, the right to strike ana for penalties for breaches of agreement.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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190SOCIALIST CONGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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