The house of Industry : a new estate of the realm

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY OR THE HOUSE OF LORDS?

(Issued at the request of the Executive Committee of the Hemel Hempstead Divisional Labour Party for the information and consideration of Members).

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TRING, 4 Oct., 1930. To the Secretary, Divisional Executive, Hemel Hempstead.

DEAR COMRADE,

We are requested by the Tring and District Labour Party to inform you that they have unanimously passed the following resolution :—

‘‘That this meeting of the Tring and District Labour Party, recognising the urgent need for the re-organisation of the industrial system, and further impressed with the failure of Parliament as at present constituted, to deal drastically with the economic system, calls for the separation of industrial problems from the purely political work of the House of Commons. To that end it proposes the abolition of the House of Lords, whose constitutional! functions have become obsolete and whose influence is now exercised in the interests of the possessing classes, and the substitution therefore of a House of Industry elected on a definitely industrial basis, and to which full powers shall be given to control

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