NAVIES OF NATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 215, 9 September 1921, Page 5

NAVIES OF NATIONS.

BRITAIN'S PROGRAMME. CONDEMNED BY LABOUR. 'XXAMPLE TO CONFERENCE. (By Cat>:c — Tress Association.— Cupj-rlgtot.) (Received 11.30 a.m.? LONDOX, September 8. The Trades Union Congress at Cardiff passed a resolution protesting against, tiie British Government's decision to I i-arry out an extensive programme of I armaments, asking for the suspension of I all preparations for war until the Washington Conference is over. Mr. -T. 11. Thomas, the mover, claimed the richt of organised Labour to bn re-1 presented at the Washington Conference. Britain had to admit tli°at within two years of the Versailles Treaty she was \ laying down four battleship's, to cost! thirty to forty million.-. This was a! mockery and a farce. Were they not I entitled to ask against whom she was I building. The Anglo-.)apanese Treaty j caused more friction with America than j anything elee. Americans, rightly or j wrongly, concluded that in the event of j war Britain could only take sides' against America. Nobody could —•— ! rupture between Britain and America. Britain must go to Washington with clean hands and sot an example by not proceeding with battleships.—(A. and : N.Z. Cable.)