SOCIALISTS AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3177, 30 August 1917, Page 5

SOCIALISTS AND THE WAR

THE INTER-ALLIED "LABOUR

CONFERENCE

COLLAPSE PREDICTED

London, August 28. Tho Inter-Allied Socialist and Labour Conference met under Mr. Henderson's presidency. llany delegates, privately and openly, expressed serious misgivings, and oxpeot the palaver to collapse before the end o£ tho programme is reached, as tho points on which they are likely to disagree) are far inoro important than those in which they will agree.—Aus.N.//. Cable Assn. (Ree. August 29, 7.30 p.m.) London, August 2S. Delegates from Prance, Russia, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, and South Africa are present at the Socialist Conference. Mr. Arthur Hewlerean, in his opening address, declared that momentous issues depended on its decisions. Tho speeches of the French delegates indicated wide differences on many important points, notably on the Stockholm Conference. They declined representation on tho commission which the conf eronco appointed to deal with this subject. A commission wae also appointed to deal generally with the question of peace terms—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PASSPORT DIFFICULTIES. (Rec. August 30 : 0.55 a.m.) London, August 2D. The official reixirt of the Socalist Conference discloses the fact that tho Stockholm Conference canot be held on Sepholm Conference cannot bo held on Sep■'The Times."