11 OCTOBER 1930, Page 2

The Labour Party Conference On Monday the Labour Party Conference

opened at Llandudno. The resolutions criticizing the Government were threatening enough—particularly in regard to unem- ployment—but when we write on Thursday the Party leaders have not had more difficulty than usual in handling the delegates. Miss Susan Lawrence was in the chair, and, as might have been expected, attributed the terrible increase of unemployment to a new order of influences. She took the counter-offensive by retailing the positive achievements of the Government. She was certainly able to compile a considerable list of Acts, but it is quite another matter whether this really consoled the Conference. Working her way through foreign policy and India to the Imperial Conference, she said that the Conference must find practical methods of improving Imperial trade.