The Archive · 1937

Labour Party Attitude The Executive, Committee of the

Labour Party will meet early next month and will most likely examine the Far Eastern situation and probably will ask that Parliament be summoned on October 19 instead of the 21 for interpellating the Government on its foreign policy.

Labour M-P.s who arrived in London from their constituencies were very much impressed by the torve of British reaction to Japanese excesses. The Labour Party will probably support an sufi-Japanese boycott campaign but political circles doubted that the Labour Party and the Trade Unions would recommend strikes if owners refused to join, owing to the Parliamentary Act of 1927 which prohibited all strikes unless for question of salaries or the freedom of Unions. Political strikes are illegal while political strikers are deprived of unemployment benefits granted others. However, moral support by the Labour Party and the Trade Unions may be rather efficient owing to the importance of the movement.—Havas.

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