LABOUR CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 5

LABOUR CONFERENCE

EXPELLED MEMBERS SEEK TO RETURN SUGGESTED CONDITIONS. OPPOSITION TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. , The Labour Conference overwhelmingly rejected a motion opposing conscription. Sir Stafford Cripps and four other members expelled applied for readmission to the Labour Party. They said they were prepared to sign the usual undertakings. A letter signed by Sir Stafford Cripps, Mr G. R. Strauss, Mr Aneurin Bevan, Lieut.-Commander Young, and Mr Robert Bruce quoted Dr Hugh Dalton’s reference to holding an opinion, yesterday, and proceeded: “If our application for readmission is granted, we shall exercise freedom to impress upon the party the necessity for making an effective opposition to the National Government, and to oppose every tendency to co-operate with that Government, which we regard as as the gravest menace to the working class of Britain. We shall abide by the decision of the conference regarding a Popular Front, because if our tactics are rejected its immediate practicability is destroyed.” An Independent Cable Service message states that Mr Noel Barker, winding up the debate declared: “Week by week and month by month we are writing messages for a secret press circulating in Herr Hitler’s country. We are trying to make the German people understand that we do not want to encircle them, but want to work, with them for peace."