LABOUR WORLD.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 7

LABOUR WORLD.

lIP. CONFERENCE NO AFFILIATION WITH MOSCOW. (By Cable—iress Association— Copyright.)* (Australian and N.Z. Cat).* Ataociatwa* LONDON, March 23. The Independent Labour Conference discussed the twenty-one conditions of affiliation to tho Moscow Internationale. A resolution was moved that the conditions could not be accepted. The mover pointed out that one condition was that the workers should prepare, not for a Parliamentary victory, but for victory by bloody civil war. A counter-resolution was proposed by a Liverpool delegate, and seconded by a Glasgow delegate, representing fit teen branches, that the Moscow conditions be accepted. Mr Ramsay Mac Donald said he thought the adherents to the Left Wing had received instructions from Moscow to remain within, the Party, in order to disrupt it. The Conference rejected the proposa. for affiliation by 521 votes to 97. The' Left Wing announced that it would consider its position. Present indications are that it will secede from the Party. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY. SYDNEY, March 29. The Labour Conference decided to retain proportional representation, with amendments, by a vote of 111 to 89. A resolution was carried sympathising With Ireland, and suggesting that a cable message be sent to the Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. J. Storey, with a view to urging the King and the Imperial authorities to withdraw the armed forces from Ireland. The conference passed a resolution pledging the members, individually and collectively, to refuse to participate in any war outside the Commonwealth. LEAD MINERS' STRIKE. LONDON. March 28. The first strike for 300 years has occurred in the Upper Lanarkshire lead mines, the miners refusing reductions in wages without which the owners declare they must close the mines. Strikers, prospecting in the neighbourhood, found small quantities of gold.