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Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 187, 4 July 1919, Page 8

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TERMS CONDEMNED.

LABOR AND THE PEACE

TREATY

! 'SELF-DETEHMINATION.''

[Press Association.! WELLINGTON, July 4. ' The Peace Terms s^nd the ,inter- ■ national situation were discussed ,at the conference of *he Labor party to-day, and a manifesto placing on . record .Labor's u'nqiiailinedi oondemnation of the terms of the Treaty was adopted unanimously, ifos> reasons : being set out at length. The conference declared in favor •■■of self-determination for Ireland, . Egypt, India, and all Mjibjeet peoples, and joined with the workers elsewhere in demanding the withdrawal •of Allied troops from Russia and other Socialistic. republics. It also - declared unreservedly in favor of lifting the blockade imposed on Russia.