Labor Party Resolution Calls on Great Britain to Promote Policy of Palestine Mandate

The Labor Party conference today adopted a resolution by an overwhelming majority declaring that the time has arrived for the British government to apply all the resources at its command in order to promote the policy of the Palestine Mandate by the development of the economic possibilities of the whole mandated territory, thus encouraging Jewish immigration and the close settlement of the land to the utmost capacity.

The resolution reaffirms the policy of the Labor Party concerning the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. The resolution was proposed by Maurice Rosetti, a Jewish delegate, and seconded by by Councillor Frankel. Dr. Hugh Dalton, under-secretary of state in the foreign office, accepted the resolution on behalf of the Labor Party’s executive after expressing a plea for cooperation between Jewish and Arab workers in Palestine.

A second part of the resolution placed the conference on record as nothing with satisfaction the conclusions of Sir Harry Snell, the Labor member of the Shaw Commission, that the achievements of the Jews in Palestine in the last decade are as significant as anything that has happened in our time. The conference also reiterated its conviction that no divergence of interests exists between the Jewish and Arab working populations and, therefore, the conference noted with approval the statement of the British government before the League of Nations that the Jewish National Home can be established without detriment to non-Jewish interests by conferring benefit upon the whole country.

A second resolution, which it was at first intended to submit to the conference protesting against the suspension of immigration, was withdrawn by the common consent of the Party and the proposer.