LABOUR AND THE WAR.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 51, 8 July 1918, Page 3

LABOUR AND THE WAR.

A. SPLIT IN BRITAIN,

BUT ONLY POLITICAL

I Xone of the Labour Ministers were • present at the inauguration of the new I Trade Union Party, but the Parlia- ! nioiitary Labour Party will immediately i review the situation. Tt is admitted j that the split is serious, and it indicates growing Trade Union opinion, demanding that the La'bour Party shall shed ils pacifist influences and declare its , determination to liave no dealings with ! Germany until she is beaten. The ! Sailors' and .Firemen's Union supports 1 the new party. | Two hundred delegates at Caxton : Hall resolved on the formation of a distinct Labour Party for trade unionists. The chairman declared that the obj jeet of the party was to oppose the paci- : fists among the Labourites, though not : hostile to the Trade Union Congress. I Mr Havelock Wilson (seamen's sec- ; rotary) said the gathering did not include blacklegs or Bolsheviks, nor would any Kerenskys dramatically appear on the platform. I 'Mr Havelock Wilson described M. I Kcrensky as a most dangerous type of i gasbag, who was responsible for Eus- • sia 's present condition.