LABOUR'S IDEALS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 303, 20 December 1917, Page 5

LABOUR'S IDEALS.

AN INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, j (Received 11.35 a.m.) IiOXDON, December 19. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in an article in the "Manchester Guardian," says that under the new constitution the Labour party will be founded on the National trade unions, Socialist some lie? uuu '■■ local labour organisations. An industrial i democracy rather than State organisation of industry was the ultimate aim lit had in view. Internationalism was the cardinal doctrine of the Labour j movement, but the party would not .suffer its internationalism to negative the ideal of an empire that will become an alliance oi free. peoples under democratic government. The first step would be to maJcc Britain a'democratic State. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) CALL ON MAN POWER. ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONED. ' LONDON, December 19. The hinchestcr Guardian" says it believes the new man-power proposals of the Government arc so drastic that the Government might feel unable to enforce them without an appeal to the country. The "Guardian" hints that the King might prefer to try a reconstruction of the Ministry instead of' accepting a dissolution.^—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)