LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 7

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

DRAMATIC SCENES AT BIRMINGHAM. RIGHT TO WORK PRINCIPLE. FOREIGN POLICY CONDEMNED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. ; (Received January 27, 10.30 a.m.) ; LONDON, 26th January. ! The Labour Conference at Birmingham has carried a resolution demanding the amendment of the Insurance 1 Bill on the ground that the proposed contributions are unjustly heavy and that the Bill will injure the trade unions. The conference condemned the foreign policy in connection with armaments and militarism, but favoured ah enquiry as to how far a general strike in the countries concerned would tend to avert war. x The conference urges the establishment of the right to work principle, in. order that the reduction of armaments will not involve any ' unnecessary hard* ships on the workers-. There were many dramatic scenes. The miners' delegates opposed the suffrage resolution on ifrhe ground that they did not intend to refuse manhood eufrage merely because women's suffrage was not included. The miners were defeated by 919,000 votes to 686,000. LONDON, 26th January. The Labour Conference at Birmingham decided to vote £6000 per annum — which is the extent to which the statuary payment of members of Parliament .has relieved the funds of the party — towards the cost .of the Labour newspaper. Resolutions were carried in favour of the right to strike ; condemning the employment of military in connection with strikes j and affirming that until the' Osborne judgment is reversed all trade* unions be advised to defy the law.