LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 June 1918, Page 5

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

MOTION TO WITHDRAW FROM GOVERNMENT. Received 8.45 a.in. .". LONDON, June 27.

At the Conference, Mr. Smilie, in a vehement speech, which was loudly .cheered, declared a vast majority of the delegates were amazed at Mr. Arthur Henderson's statement that there had been no truce for two years. It was easy to get a better Government than the present- one; they could not possibly get a worse. The country is as sick of the,truce as they are sick of the .Government.

Mr. Williams,; a transport worker, said if the adoption of the report meant the withdrawal of the Labourites from the Government, so much the better.

Sylvia Pankhurst, on behalf of Vae British Socialists, in a violent speech moved, demanding the Labourites withdraw from the Government. Th:s was not seconded.

Mr... Barnes;, voicing the opinion of the Moderates, said the resolution would weaken the nation's efforts during one of the greatest crises in history. The motion would be taken ny the Government as a declaration of war. He was in the Cabinet as a representative of the Labour Party, which more than once had confirmed that he should stop in the Government until the Labour Party in a. similar manner said otherwise.

Mr. Clynes, who had an enthusiastic reception, challenged the supporters of the resolution to test their opinions by a series of bye-election. Personally, he was prepared to resign to meet them.

The general opinion is that the resolution is not intended to withdraw the Labourites from the Government, though it may embarrass them, but is only intended to mean that the Labour Party proposes to hold itself free to contest elections against coalition candidates. So the Labour Ministers will have to keep silent over such elections. GREETINGS FROM RUSSIANS. Received 11.15 a.m. STOCKHOLM, June 27. A delegation of Russian Social revolutionaries sent greetings to the British Labour Conference, declaring the liquidation of the Bolshevik Govcrnment must precede Russia's revival, and the shameful Bre&t-Litovsft peace must be abrogated. They hoped the British conference will be followed 'by the convocation of an international Socialist conference, which will give humanity the desired democratic peace. ,