LABOUR, Mr, Thurtle Resigns the LI. on Loyalty to Party London, Dec. 9.
Mr, Ernest Thurtle, Labour M.P., for Shoreditch, has' resigned his} membership of the Independent} Labour Party because the Council the action of Mr. James Maxton and other members of the Labour Party in Yoting against the Government on the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
In the courte of a letter to the secretary of the Council, Mr. Thurtle Genounces the "grotesque once} tion of democracy" which, he says, amokes loyalty to the Independent Labour Party, not to the larger ady of which it is a part, a supreme est of political virtue—Reuter,
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