BRITISH LABOR CONFERENCE ON GOVERNMENT PROBLEMS
British Labor Conference On Government Problems (Br s New Leaser Carreipandeot). . T ONDON.—More than 1,000 delegates of the Labor Party assembled at Brighten in annual conference last...
...commodity...
...A few of the faithful gathered In the lobby and distributed pamphlets among the delegates in which they denounced everything the Labor Government has done since the elections...
...La Guardia for Mayor...
...The delegates come from shops, factories, mines and farms and represent trade union, political and co-operative organizations that form the basis of the party that is now governing the British Empire...
...Arthur Henderson, Foreign Minister and a member of the joint committee on a living wage, pleaded that the question be put aside for a year in order that the government might have time to accomplish the welfare legislation to which it had already committed itself and the labor unions might have more opportunity to study the question of children's allowances...
...Among these is unemployment but -even tMs is to some extent tied up with international relations of which MacDonald...
...It was so largely because of the almost uncanny stillness and inten-sity with which the audience of 1,000 delegates from mines, shops and farms drank in their Chancellor's clear and lucid exposition of an intricate subject...
...For these reasons which are the result of long experience in the labor movement I shall support the- labor ticket which is headed by Norman...
...With the party in power there are more issues to consider than otherwise would be the case and some sharp differences of opinion were expected...
...It seriously crippled the Labor Party finances in time for the General Election...
...Backs Thomas Louis Fuchs...
...The Act had the effect which its Tory authors intended it to have...
...It may serve men ambitious to get office but it does not bring political power to American labor...
...It met with the party in power and the delegates were required to consider reports of their men m office and plan for meeting some great domestic problems...
...Membership Decreases The effect of the Tory Trade Union Act which was aimed to cripple the finances of the Labor Party is difficult to determine...
...This record is beaten by the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, with 97 per cent...
...Neckwear Makers' Union Spurns LaGuardia Bid...
...Henderson was subjected to much questioning, but it was not of an acrid nature...
...Soewden for Banking Probe Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer .assured the conference of a thorough government investigation of the whole British banking system...
...ThomM, the Socialist candidate for Mayor...
...The Independent Labor Party favored such assistance but it was opposed by trade union delegates on the ground that such aid made controversies with the employers on wages more difficult...
...Weli over half a million of the decrease is accounted for by poverty and disorganization among the miners and in other depressed trades, and by the compulsory withdrawal from the Labor Party of the Civil Service unions...
...The matter was delayed by a vote representing 1,250.000 members of the constituent bodies with delegates at the conference ,as against a vote representing 800,000...
...But the machinery has now been created, and the results are disconcerting to the Tories and Liberals...
...These figures give the answer to the former Tory Government...
...For what nobler cause...
...The conference was unlike any other ever held by the party...
...There is none of the smug complacency which characterized the Tory Party in the last year of its rule but an earnest presentation of views by delegates...
...To me this policy has the appearance of making the labor movement a polities...
...At the same time he paid tribute to President Hoover for helping to bring a fresh spirit into the discussions on naval disarmament...
...The Communist movement, like the movement in other countries, is torn with strife and factional divisions and by its fight against the Labor Party last year has also suffered by desertions...
...Thursday saw one of the most dramatic sessions ever held by the Labor Party, or by any political organization anywhere...
...The Foreign Secretary spoke of the differences which had lain in the way of agreement on naval parity with the United States, adding that the negotiations between Prime Minister* "MacDonald and Ambassador Dawes had reached the stage before the Prime Minister sailed for Washington, where it was hoped that France, Italy and Japan would soon be able to join the discussions.' The problem with the United States, he said, would never have been settled In the "Old way...
...Over three-quarters of the members of the Transport and General Workers* Union, and more than 83 per cent of the Railway Clerks' Association are contributine to their union dolitlcal funds...
...Henderson and Snowden have been giving much attention since entering office...
...The Congress opened in a jubilant spirit occasioned by the Labor Party's victory in the last election, with a number of Cabinet Ministers on the platform...
...In the National Union of Railwaymen 275.937 members, out of a total membership of 298,478, have "contracted in...
...They understood, for if they had not there must have been restlessness and there was not a trace of it...
...Fuchs' letter follows: "I have your letter of recent date inviting me to attend a meeting of representatives of organized labor to support the candidacy of Mr...
...With such heavy political contributions paid by the members of tbe trade unions under difficult circumstances it is evident that the members favor the levy ' Foreign Secretary Henderson appealed io the delegates to embark upon a disarmament crusade and to make this a disarmament year...
...Children Allowances Pat OS At the opening seJklon there was a long debate on the question of whether there should be government allowances tor the children of workers who need assistance...
...The membership of the Labor Party declined 1,200.000 in 1928...
...In passing the act the Tories claimed that they were protecting members of trade unions who were terrorized into paying a political levy against their will...
...One of these causes he referred to as "a year's orgy of speculative finance 3.000 miles away...
...T ONDON.—More than 1,000 delegates of the Labor Party assembled at Brighten in annual conference last week...
...While conceding the sincerity of any labor men who may choose to take this course I must respectfully to attend the meeting...
...Ninety per cent of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers are paying the levy...
...A few days before the Congress opened masses of those who support the Labor Party gathered at Waterloo station in London, singing the "Red Flag"' and cheering Premier MacDonald as he left for his important mission to the United States...
...he asked...
...Then came a remarkable scene as the Minister resumed his seat and the whole body of delegates rose, cheering frantically for several minutes...
...They were not molested but one Communist in the gallery was ejected for shouting and interrupting the proceedings...
...The Communist movement, never at any time influential in Great Britain, is even less in evidence this year...
...He explained the investigation was" to determine if possible what changes could be made in the system that would protect English finance igainst dislocation from various causes...
...We are out to end the waste and folly of that competitive system of armaments which has cost so much arift' which the nations still maintain and which besmirches the name of our ciilization...
...manager of the United Neckwear Makers' Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, Tuesday made public a letter to Thomas E. Derrick, sponsor of a labor committee for F. H. La Guardia, in which he refused to join the La Guardia movement and declared himself for Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor...
...could my government or any party stand...
...I am opposed to Oils course on principle as I am a labor perty man and do not believe in the policy of dragging labor organizations into a movement to supprt any man whose views are uncertain, who runs into parties and out of them as bis own personal ambitions may indicate, who has the support of some of our most reactionary rich men, and who blows hot and cold on labor issues with every change of the weather...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 10
