LABOUR UNITED

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 36, 11 August 1920, Page 7

LABOUR UNITED

TO PREVENT WAR ON RUSSIA

"ULTIMATUM" TO THE GOVERNMENT.

(REUTERS TELEORAS!.'> LONDON,-9th August. The Labour Conference held in the House of Commons passed the following solution : "That this joint conference, •presenting the Trades Union Congress, i/-'!ts Labour Party, and the Parliamentary Labour Party, feels certain that a. war is being engineered between the Allied. Powers and Soviet Russia over Poland, and declares that such a war would be an intolerable crime against humanity, ,-inc 1 warns the Government that the ■whole industrial power of the organised workers will be used to defeat .this war ; that the executive committees of affiliated organisations throughout the country be summoned to hold themselves ready to proceed immediately to London for a national conference; that they be advised to instruct members to down tools on instructions from that national conference ; and that a.- council be immediately constituted to take such -steps as may be necessary to carry this decision into effect." The decision is -unquestionably an ■ultimatum to the Government that a new war will mean a general strike nil over the country. A prominent Labourite declares that the decision is not only a threat, but the- decision will materialise if necessary. Considerable enthusiasm prevailed at the conference following the adoption of the resolution. The exti-eme wing urged immediate direct iiction, but the moderates, although equally -favouring firm attitude, secured the adoption of the more constitutional procedure.