MOSLEY RELEASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1943, Page 4

MOSLEY RELEASE

LABOUR PARTY RESOLUTION NON-COMMITTAL TERMS MORE PROTESTS BY UNIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. The Parliamentary Labour Party, at a crowded private meeting in the House of Commons today, discussed the release of the Mcsieys and defeated by a majority of ten votes a resolution deprecating the release. .This is somewhat of a triumph for Mr Herbert Morrison (Home Secretary) says the Press Association’s political correspondent. The party, after a lively discussion, passed the following resolution: “The party appreciates the widespread concern created by the release of Sir O. Mosley, a concern which can only be allayed by a full debate in Parliament, but is of opinion that the administration of Regulation 188, which must necessarily be of a judicial character, should be kept free from party political controversy.” The meeting made it clear that the motion in no way limited the right of members to express their individual views during the forthcoming debate. The “Daily Express” reports that ten Conservative members have tabled a motion demanding a reconsideration of ■Regulation 188 and calling for those at present detained under the regulation to be brought to trial. The executive of the Mine Workers’ Federation, meeting in London, unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the release of Mosley and requesting that he be reinterned.

The Belfast branch of the National Union of Railwaymen passed a resolution asking the executive committee to make immediate representations to the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union, and other unions concerned in transport, with a view to calling a general strike of all transport workers until Mosley is reimprisoned.