INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE
EXPLANATION BY MR, GOMPERS. Washington, March 16. In view of the misunderstanding amongst the Britinh and French Labour parties regarding his previous message declining to send American representatives to the Inter-Allied Labour Conference in London in/February, Mr. Samuel Gompers (president of the American Federation cf Labour) has sent a cable message to Mr. Arthur Henderson and M. Albert Thomas, the French Socialist, stating that Labour of ail Allied countries must co-operate in the gigantic task of destroying autocracy, and explaining that it was impossible owing to the shortness of time to send representatives to. the February conference. American Labour would be filad to meet representatives of Allied Labour, but refuses to moot representatives of Labour of enemy countries while nghting against the democracy and the world's freedom. Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 5
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131INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 5
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