LABOUR AND THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 5

LABOUR AND THE WAR

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Mr. JVTLaren in his letter on Labour and the war in your issue of 14th June endeavours to belittle Webb, M'Combs, and others by making it appear that, to use his own words, "there never can be any doubt as to the policy of the British Labour movement" in its

attitude on the war. A portion of a letter published in the last issue of the Maoriland Worker from Mr. J. Bruce Glasier, editor, of the Socialist Review, to the Worker does not seem to quite fit with Mr. M'Laren's statement. It is thus: "As doubtless you know, here in Great Britain, as in Germany and Russia, the Socialists are split into two groups— those who support the war and those who dissociate themselves from the war and militarism altogether. The Independent Labour Party (the I.L.P.)—the largest Socialist organisation in this country— to which I belong and of which ; our beloved comrade Keir Hardie was the founder and leader, has from the outset stood out against the war. So likewise has the smaller Socialist body, the Socialist Labour- Party. The British Socialist Party (formerly the Social Democratic Party) is divided into two sections on the question, but which of the two is the larger section will not be known till the party meets in conference at Easter."—l am, etc., J.\B. EULBERT. 14th June, 1916.