AMERICA AT WAR.
LABOUR'S TASK. I AUTOCR ACY must be destroyed (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) WASHINGTON, March 16. In view of the misunderstanding amongst the British and French Labourites regarding his previous message declining to send American representatives to the International Labour Con- | ference in London, in February, Mr Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation. cabled Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P.. and M. Albert Thomas (tho French Socialist) that Labour in all Allied countries must cooperate in the gigantic task of destroying autocracy. He explained that it was impossible, owing to the shortness of time, to send representatives to the February conference. American labour would be plad to meet representatives of Allied labour, but- refused to meet the representatives of labour of enemy countries, which are fighting against democracy and world freedom.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16164, 19 March 1918, Page 7
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133AMERICA AT WAR. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16164, 19 March 1918, Page 7
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