LABOUR AND THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1304, 29 September 1914, Page 3

LABOUR AND THE WAR.

MR PHILLIP SNOWDEN M.P., INTERVIEWED. Mr Phillip Snowden, M-P. for Blackburn, and one of the most prominent members of the British Labour Party, who is now a visitor to Auckland, in an interview, said as far as he knew the views of his colleagues and the Labour Party he thought the attitude of the members would now be one of fighting the thing through. He thought everybody agreed upon that now. Later the Labour Party and the peace party would insist on some settlement which would not repeat the past follies, blunders and crimes of European diplomacy and international policy having for its object the maintenance of huge armies and navies. The conclusion of the war would provide wonderful opportunities for trying to put Europe in a large measure on a peace instead of a war tooting. If so the war would probably be something of a blessing in disguise. Mr Snowden spoke strongly against the policies of Ententes and Alliances which bad made Britain's participation in the present war unavoidable. It involved a big question of policy which would have to be settled after the war was over. The bureaucracy of Germany must be overthrown. One thing England and the democracy of Europe must insist upon is the democratisation of the German system of government. If we got that we should have, he believed, an assurance of the probability of European peace in future.