RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

/ I RUSSIAN FLEET. j Electric Telegraph—-Copyright./ | STOCKHOLM, August 10. : There is anxiety in the Baltic ports, especially in the Finnish ports, owing to reported activity in the Russian Fleet, which has hurriedly completed refitting and is about to proceed to sea. RUSSIANS ADVANCING. LONDON, August 10. 4 Tho “Daily News” Berlin correspon- > dent says: Advices from Hast Prussia state the Russian Northern Army is only seven miles from the Polish corridor, to Danzig and is advancing lyThe Russian cavalry has cut the War-saw-Danzig railway at Clebhanow. BRITISH LABOUR AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, August 10. \ The joint political and industrial Labour organisations have come to a unanimous decision against war on Russia. This is an unprecedented action in the history of the Labour movement. It means that if Britain decides to institute war measures against Russia, the National Congress of Trade Unions will be held within a few hours to declare an immediate general strike, involving 6,000,000 workers. Other sectional Labour protests against war on Russia continue. There is every indication that Hie great mass of the working class population are united behind their leaders. A Council of Action has been appointed Ijy the Labour Conference. It has arranged an interview w'ith Mr Lloyd George for to-day. It was at a meeting of Labour leaders at the House of Commons that Labour’s Russian attitude was defined. The joint conference represented the Trades’ Union Congress, tjie Labour Party, and the Parliamentary Labour Party, and it passed the following resolution:—“The Lahpur movement feels certain that a war is being engineered between the Allied Powers and Soviet Russia over Poland,” The resolution declares such a war would be an intolerable crime against humanity. It warns the Government that the whole industrial power of the organised workers will be used to defeat this war. It orders that executive committes of affiliated organisations throughout the country be summoned to hold themselves ready to proceed immediately to London for a national con_ ference, and that they be advised to instruct their members to down tools on instructions from that national conference. It was resolved further that a council be immediately constituted to take such steps as are necessary to carry this decision into effect. The decision is unquestionably an ultimatum to the Government that a new war will mean a general strike all over the country. ’ Prpjnipeqji dec}are the decision is not only a threat, but #w»t the decision will materialise if necessary. Considerable enthusiasm prevailed at the conference following the adoption of the resolution. The extreme wing urged immediate direct action, but the moderates, although equally favouring a firm attitude, secured the adoption of a more constitutional procedure. A national conference of trade unions to consider the Russian war policy meets in London on the 30th.