LABOUR AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 5

LABOUR AND THE WAR

PROPOSED TRUCE WITH GERMANY London, April 6. The Norwich Labour Conferenco has closed. A proposal that a truce should bo arranged with Germany, with a view to a settlement, was loudly applauded. A resolution was carried protesting against Labour M.P.'s assisting in tho recruiting campaign. (Rec. April 8. 0.5 a.m.) Lontfon, April 7. Tho Conference declared against Labour members of Parliament speaking 011 platforms where any attempts were being made to justify the war. A resolution was adopted approving of tho party rcsumiim its rational propaganda, and directing attention to the persistent misrepresentation of the conditions and 'habits of workingpeople, nnd the arnve problems of taxatjnM I|fld HMfiypliivnißjit which ti.ouid Ai'ka at iiig to jvaiti. ,

The Conference decl&red tliafc the Government should immediately disclose the terms upon' which it was prepared to negotiate for peace. REBUKE TO THE "NEUTRALS." London, April 7. Mr. J. R. Cljnes (Labour M.P. for North-East Manchester), writing to the Independent Labour Patty's Conference nt Norwich, in defence of the recruiting, eaid that strong action, not neutrality, was the Socialists' natural call when brutal and treacherous . crimes such as those by the Germans in Belgium had been committed.