The next year, on 24 June 1920, the opposition Labour Party Conference at Scarborough unanimously passed a resolution which denounced the 'cruel and barbarous actions' of British officers in Punjab and demanded their trial, the dismissal of O'Dwyer and Chelmsford, and the repeal of the repressive legislation. The delegates rose in their places as a tribute to those killed at Jallianwala Bagh. After the Punjab disturbances, O'Dwyer was relieved of his office. Subsequently, the Secretary of State for India, Edwin Montagu, condemned O'Dwyer's severity, including his policy of communal punishment. O'Dwyer's response to the Amritsar troubles was that that was "what comes of having that Jew in Whitehall", referring to Montagu.