BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.
.CONFERENCE IN BIRyMINGHAM. By Teleeriph-Prcss Assoclation-Copyrlehi London, January 20. The Labour Conference at Birmingham lias carried a resolution demanding the amendment of the Insurance Bill on the ground that the proposed contributions are unjustly heavy and that the Bill will injure the trade unions. The conference, condemned the foreign policy in connection With armaments and militarism, but favoured an inquiry as to how far a general strike, in the countries concerned would tend to avert war. The conference urges the establishment of the right to work principle, in order that the reduction of armaments will not involve any unnecessary hardships on the workers. There were many dramatic scenes. The miners' delegates opposed the suffrage resolution on the ground that they did not intend to refuse manhood sufrage merely because women's suffrage '■ was not included. The miners were defeated by 019,000 votes to G56.000.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 5
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146BRITISH LABOUR PARTY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 5
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