Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moved resolution which he described as a "full-blooded and unqualified condomination of the Government's foreign policy."
The resolution demanded (1) that the Government sign a general pact of arbitration; (2) that they abandon the Anglo-French naval agreement; (3) that they sign an effective disarmament treaty, and (4) that they withdraw unconditionally li foreign troops from the Rhineland, The Labour Leader said that the Government's actions at Geneva since 1924 had been nothing else but putting obstacles in the way of peace. He declared that the Anglo-French Agreement was not disarmament agreement: it was recognition of the requirements of France and Great Britain in the event of war, the assumption of the parties being that the agreement was of such a character that it made for pence and was acceptable to other nations as a contribution to European disarmament.
The Conference adopted MacDonald's resolution.
The ex-Premier concluded his beech. by. saying that when the House of met in November the. Labour Party would demand publication of the Anglo-French agreement, together with the Notes exchanged between the two Foreign Offices.
The Conference sat "in private this afternoon, discussing the party's financial position, with special reference to the effort to raise a.
£100,000 election fund—Reuter, Attack on Mr. Ramsay Macdonald London, Oct. 3.
At to-day's meeting of the La-hour Party, Conference the Leader the Party, Mr. Tammy Macdonald, introduced the Party programme for the next General Election, which wae based on a 50-page booklet prepared by the Executive Corimittes and circulated to the delegates.
He announced that coal, transport, power, land and life-insurance should be owned by the people; the 'Trade Union Act must be repealed; banks must consider the interests fof the nation as a whole and not financiers' interest; while the system of paying a minimum wage must be made effective.
Mr. Macdonald declared that there could be no equality between Capita) and Labour while the owners of capital formed one class and toe suppliers of labour another.
Not a Programme But " Thesia Mr. James Maxton, Labour for Glasgow, complained that the 50-page booklet was not a pro gramme but a thesis which gave the next Labour Government a free
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