LABOUR'S PEACE VIEWS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

LABOUR'S PEACE VIEWS

COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ISSUED DEVASTATED COUNTRIES TO BE RESTORED (Rec. August 10, D.55 p.m.) ■ London, August 10. A committee of the Labour Executive has issued a report suggesting a basis for British Labour's peace views. Tlio report will l>e presented at Friday's conference, discussed at a special conference lield in London on August 21, and finally submitted.to Allied Labour and Socialist* ceuorence:. The report welcomes the Russian declaration against annexations and indemnities, and urges further democratisation of all countries, as a.means of '■ preventing future wars. ' It declares that the peace conditions should- in the first place include reparation for Belgium and paymentof all damage and to complete, its restoration and independence, also the restoration of Serbia and JJontenegro, and solve the Balkan question by means of an international commission on the basis of free national choice, plus a Balkan federation, and the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine. The peace terms should include satisfaction of Italy's legitimate interests in the _ Adriatic and the Aegean, the liberation of Palestine, the; administration of Armenia, Mesopotamia, ..and Arabia, also of tropical Africa, by a commission repre«nting a league of nations, the application to all other disputed cases, including Luxemburg and Poland, on the principle of free national choice. The report denounces an economic war after tlie wan l>y tariffs or otherwise, considering an alliance of military Imperialists and fiscal protectionists in-any coiinfry a grave menace to peace, oiit the right of each nation to defend its economic interests cannot be denied. Guilty Governments and individuals should hn punished for culpable acts, notably the inhuman submarine' warfare.—Aue.rNX Cable Assn.