INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY'S CONFERENCE
INDUSTRIAL STRIFE WILL FOLLOW.
(Received April 25, 8.20 a.m.)
LONDON." 24th April. At the Independent Labour Party Conference at Newcastle, four hundred delegates were present. Mi;, F. W. Jowett, president, in his address, declared that the party had refused to assist the Government in a war of adventure which was bound to be disastrous whatever the result of the military operations. Ho protested against men being compelled to fight whether or not they believed in the justice of the war. He predicted that the war would be followed by industrial strife if the skilled workers were dragged down to the level of the unskilled, and women's labour cheapened the labour of men, or tho capitalists were so enriched that the workers would be weaker than before the war.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 97, 25 April 1916, Page 7
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