REBUFF TO LABOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1920, Page 3

REBUFF TO LABOR.

PRANCE EXPELS BRITISHERS. REGARDED AS SERIOUS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, August 17. Messrs. Adamson and Gosling arrived early in the morning. Conferences were held with the leaders of the General Confcdration of Labor and other prominent Socialists. A commissary of police, wearing insignia, approached vliem rthat they must leave by the eight o'clock evening train, otherwise steps would be taken to enforce the order. I'he o/Kcial said that the Government considered their presence unnecessary •Hid undesirable.

Ministerial' officials declined 'to give further explanations, saying that in such cases explanations were unnecessary. French labor leaders tried to interview Ministers, who declined. The General Labor Federation and Socialist Parliamentary Party have protested against the expulsion of Messrs. Adamson and Gosling. A Federation manifesto urges workers to refftse to carry out war work and protests against the French policy to aid General Wran-gel.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, August 18. The Labor leaders take a serious view of the expulsion of Messrs, Adamson nnd Gosling from France, but await details before deciding on a course of action. —Times. [l'he British ''Council of Action" decided to send Mr. William Adamsoi? (chairman of the Parliamentary Labor Party), and Mr. Harry Gosling (president of the Transport Workers' Federation) to Paris to confer with the Gen-" eral Confederation of Workers and the French Socialists regarding the idPolish situation, and, as announced in yesterday's Daily News the delegates were expelled by the French Government,]