London, Oct. 1.
Angry encounters marked the laponing day's proceedings of the Labour Party " Conference - which Jeommenced to-day at Southport. The Jeonterence is being attended by 800 delegates representing an affiliated membership of over 2,000,000.
The first scene occurred when exception was taken to the alleged extremist character of the committee. of Jwhich Lord Marley presides. Lord Marley asserted that the committee was not run by the Communist Party, During the course of discussion, Ihowever, Mr. Herbert Morrison, one fof the" Labour Party executives, characterized one of Lord Marley's statements as a lie, He declared that Lord Marley knew this statement to untrue, but this was denied by the Later, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Labour member of the House of Commons for Monmouth, Ebbw Vale division, Jobjected to a proposal to take action where members of the party 4330: ciated themselves with listed organizations.
The resignation of Mr, Arthur Henderson from the post of secretary of the Labour Party was discussed this afternoon at the party conference Southport.
'The chairman, Mr. W. R. Smith, expressed deep regret at this severance of a Jong association, particularly as it had Become necessary owing to Mr, Henderson's. ill-health, Mr. "Henderson, replying, said had concentrated' all' his knowledge and experience on making the party fan independent political force, Referring to his work as chairman of the Disarmament Conference, he declared that he had no intention of giving up this task, One of the treatest ideals that had. ever influenced their own or any other movement was the great task of trying to get that world agreement on \this question for which they had now been struggling for three years, Reuter.
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