Overwhelming Vote Against any Communist Being Endorsed by Labour at Elections: Mr. Ramsay Mace"
Donald's Fighting Speech London, Oct. 7."
The Labour Party Conference by card vote overwhelmingly rejected the Communist Party's application for affiliation. The figures were 3,185,000 to 193,000.
The Conference also carried a further recommendation by the Executive that no member of the Communist Party should be for endorsement as a Labot didate for Parliament or authority, by 2,456,000 054,000.
Finally, the Conference adopted blunders and escapades of his predecessors still hung like _poiso clouds over all the Government's, 'The political situation giving no little concern, Mr. Ma Donald declared. Mr.' Asquith's postelection speech, plainly intima ing that a Labour Government must feat out of his hand, had finally se tied Liberal-Labour relation. Tt was the beginning of an unworthy policy, the Intest phase of demanded a definite stand. A trumped-up stunt about the eropping of a certain prosecution ga take the field, not' to defend itself, [but to attack!
Mr. C. T. Cramp, the Industrial General Secretary of the Union of [Railwaymen, proposing a resolu tion: (which was adopted unanimously) congratulating Mr. MacDonald Hon the success of the political organization of the Labour movement, Prophesied that after the next lection Labour would be the larg-jest party in the House of Commons (cheers), Mr. Herbert Smith, President the Miners' Federation,—seconding the resolution, declared that the miners were determined to return the Labour Government, not because they believed in reparations as} brought about in the Dawes Report, but because Mr. MacDonald and his friends were going in the right direction to bring about the ultimate aim of reparations and the fend of wars for' ever (cheers).—Reuter.
Mr. Campbell's Attack on the:
Government: Curious Change of Argument London, Oct. 8.
At the Labour Party Conferencs to-day, Mr. Campbell, the editor of the "Workers' Weekly," attacked the Labour Government in eonnexion with military expenditure and alleged use of troops in industrial disputes. He asserted that the government had continued Mr. Baldwin's army policy.
Mr. J. I. Clynes replied de now ing the' curious mentality—which advocated Pacifism at this Confer-fence, but, outside, appealed to the: workers to build' up-a Red army with a view to class domination (cheers).
The matter was dropped after Mr. Clynes had spiritedly defended the Government's policy with rvgard to armaments—Reuter,
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