AMONG THE miscellaneous resolutions which appear in the preliminary agenda
of the Labour Party conference which has been published this week, there is one from Aberdeen which calls for the 'abolition of the aristocracy, evident in the House of Lords and the monarchical system.' There is, of course, always a crop of resolutions like this which never reach the agenda paper, and they always remind me of the retort which Mr. J. Sexton gave at the 1925 Labour conference to the Richmond delegates. Answering for the Executive, he said :
Richmond have a very ambitious programme. They are out for the abolition of the capitalist system. Well, we abolish that every year. They 'are out for an international republic, self- determination, a bloody revolution, and, I believe, birth control; for which they contribute to the party funds the magnificent sum of thirty bob. You cannot achieve that on thirty bob. If you would spring us another quid, there would be a chance.
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