Horror of Future War

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 9

Horror of Future War

MACDONALD PEERS AHEAD Death From Sea and Sky LABOUR'S PEACEFUL REVOLUTION United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association Received 12.5 p.m. TORONTO, Wednesday. FIFTEEN HUNDRED delegates of the American Federation of Labour Convention, which is meeting here, gave the British Prime Minister and his daughter Ishbel one of the greatest ovations accorded him since his arrival in America. Applause interrupted him when he rose to speak. Labour, said Mr. MacDonald, stood for those things he had come to America to promote.

“I have been introduced in the name of the great office which I told, but I want you to feel that, Prime Minister or not, I am still the old workman I was born. A workman is distinguished by his mentality and point of view. “In Britain I am a party man; here today I do not represent a party. I represent nation. On our side, Labour is working out its policy by evolutionary means. The revolution we believe in is the revolution of the ballot box. You can make no permanent changes in the constitution of nations unless you appeal to sound, moral sense. “Labour is the proper forum to appeal to in seeking world peace. You have to pay the debts of war in the

fullness of time. All classes have to share the sacrifice In war; but, taken in the mass, Labour dreads the burden. “If there should be another war, the sacrifices and pains of Labour will be greater thau iu the past. In the next war, death will be dealt out, not only on battlefields; it will be dealt out from the bottom of the seas and the height of the heavens. The civilian population will di*op down in the streets and die from mysterious attacks of poison.” Mr. MacDonald was introduced by President William Green, who said: ‘He is among our true friends today. We knew him in the old days as chief of the Labour Party; we know him today as the spokesman of Britain.” Ishbel also spoke.