BRITISH LABOUR PEACE

Taihape Daily Times, 2 January 1918, Page 6

BRITISH LABOUR PEACE

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BRITISH LABOUR.

LONDON, December 2S

A national conference of the Trade Union Congress and Labour Party is being held at Westminster to consider the party's manifesto on war aims. Nine hundred delegates are present. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in moving the adoption of the manifesto, declared that Labour's policy was, firstly, to secure a settlement as speedily as possible founded on the principles of democracy and security; secondly, territorial adjustments must not be dictated by annexationists or imperialist designs, or reasons of military strategy, but in the interests of progressive civilisation and the peace of the world; thirdly, trade policy after the war must not be founded upon economic oppression or the commercial isolation of the German people. No settlement could be satisfactory unless it •completely discredited aggressive militarism, and 7 substituted higher .conceptions of international responsibility Every nation included in the proposed League of Nations should pledge itself to make common cause agaist any nation breaking its pledges to the League.