AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LABOR CONFERENCE DEBATES PEACE. Au'strailan-N.Z. Cable Association. ' Sydney, June 0. The Labor Conference, debated the report of the committee appointed to draw up .the party s attitude in the movement towards the war. The committee's' renori, states that as the Governments of Europe have failed utterly to preserve peace. and to bring the war'within a measurable distance of .-:eonclusion, it ;ontends that only by ahnorganised svs.ein of production under democratic control can a reeiirrencc of such calamities be permanently avoided. Therefore tlfc report urges immediate negotiations f(fr an international conference for the puX pose of arranging equitable term?. <ff peaco, with adequate representation' qi working class organisations, the inclSc sion of women delegates,, and the separate representation of self-governing British dominions thereon. , ° Mr. Storey, leader, of. the Label Party, stated that he could never agijee to such a proposal, and in.no other eou'rf try in the world would thoy.be able » take such a resolution, It was a iftf vesty on British justice,, which er.ablffe us to discuss this without each and everi one of us being taken out and shot. f Tlie report continues: "In framin| the peace terms tlie following principled should be observed: The right of small nations, including Ireland, to political independence; that prior to disbandment the armies should bo utilised under international control for the restoration ot devastated territories at the expense of the invaders, where an amicable agreement cannot be reached. With regard to canturcd colonies, such should' bo placed provisionally under international control. Tlie abolition of conscription in ;>ll countries simultaneously and abolition in trading in armaments and prohibition of private manufacture thereof.''