PARTIES IN WAR TIME
BRITISH LABOUR VIEW BAN ON “INDEPENDENT" ACTION. REPORT OF NATIONAL EXECUTIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. The report of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party for the annual conference opening on May 25, states that it considers that it would be impossible to allow an independent party in Parliament during the electoral., truce and that Labour’s general attitude to the truce is under consideration. “Everyone recognises the impossibility of allowing a so-called Independent Party to arise, without opposition, while established political parties, in the prosecution of the war to a successful conclusion, have found it necessary to make an electoral truce,” the report observes. “The constitutional importance of this procedure has compelled the committee to exercise a stronger measure of control over the conditions governing the selection of candidates, and on occasion to intervene in the interests of the party and the public.” The report adds that the Labour Party’s general attitude in by-elections where Government candidates are in the field is also under close consideration.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 3
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