A MESSAGE FROM LABOUR TO LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 7

A MESSAGE FROM LABOUR TO LABOUR

SOMETHING TOR AUSTRALIANS TO PONDER OVER, A recent message from Washington stated that Mr. Holman had had a lengthy conference with tho Laboiw leaders,' and exchanged notes on Labour politics in the United States and in Australia. He la-ter briefly addressed the Convention of Government Employees' Unions. Mr. Holman obtained from 51 r. Gompers (president of tho American Federation of Labour) the following rueseago.ftir Australia:— "1 would like to remind Australians thai: the Gorman Socialist Labour organisations are tainted with (ho doctrine of national superiority and .the necessity for German Supremacy. Lohjf ■experience of international labour has convinced me that many,of the German Labour leaders are suborned by tho Government. German Labour attempted to sow the principles of internationalism indher countries and proposed to enforce disarmament by means of the general strike, but though it preached the ■ doctrine and hopnd that the French and British organisations would carry it nut. German Labour in 1914 showed that it was rpady to fight for the goal of national domination. It was a piece of treachery which failed, and German organised Labour 6howed that it was merely a tool of the Government. Boys of New South Wales and Australia, we are all anti-militarists, hut we have to fight tocher now against German militarism' to secure a peaceful Future for humanity,"