LABOUR CONFERENCE
$ DECLINES AFFILIATION WITH MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL.
London, June 25. The Labour Conference at Scarborough demanded a capital levy to finance housing and other'needs. The conference, by an overwhelming vote, declined to affiliate with the Mcscow International'or to secede from the Genera International. _ Tho conference passed a resolution viewing with aJarm the_ possible breakdown of the Krassin negotiation?, and demanding that private financial interests should not be allowed to hinder immediate t.iode with Russia. Mr. Rohcrt Smillie's motion reaffirming the desirableness of the nationalisation of mines, with the workers sharing in their contra!, was carried. . A Glasgow prqposa! in favours of total prohibition was overwhelmingly rejected, and a motion in favour of State control vas nwrowly defeated. The conference approved of local option—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 4ssn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 234, 28 June 1920, Page 5
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