SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

Feilding Star, Issue 352, 24 August 1907, Page 2

SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIALISTS. [BY XLUCX&IQ TELBGBATH — OOrTSIOHT.] [P£B PBESS ASBOCIAWON.} Berlin, August 23. The Wurtemburg Government has expelled Mr Quelch for denouncing the Hague Congress as a " Thieves' supper." Mr Quelch explained that his re. marks at the Socialist Conference have been intensified by the interpreter misunderstanding an expression common among English Socialists. Becenved August 24, 7.32 aim. Berlin, August 23. Amid great confusion and uproar, the Socialist Conference voted on the colonial question, and onntrary to the expectations of the extremists, defeated a resolution giving modified support to the colonial policy. Amid deafening applause and wild cheering, the extremists carried, by 127 to 108, a resolution denouncing capitalist colonisation as leading to the conquest of exploitation, international misunderstanding, and enslavement of native races. The English delegates, who were allowed 20 votes, gave 14 for. and 6 against the resolution, which was carried. Mr Ramsay McDonald advocated a moderate policy, and argued that an international understanding on the chief points of colonisation was harmless since the Socialists in Parliament could see the Government kept its word.