WORKERS’ UNION CONFERENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 18, 23 January 1919, Page 6

WORKERS’ UNION CONFERENCE

BRITISH EXTREMISTS TALK REVOLUTION. A MODERATE’S WARNING, tAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, Jan. 19. At the Workers’ Union Conference the chairman, referring to the deaths of Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, said, “We feel this deeply. The deaths of these people must be the end for the Bolshevists. **

An Indian speaker announced that the conference had decided on a general s'rike of workers in the United Kingdom unless the authorities withdrew the Allied forces from Russia.

Miss Sylvia Pankhur.st, -who presided, said there would be revolution in England the same as in other countries.

Mr J. R. dynes, speaking at Oldham, warned the Government- of the gravity of the situation. Speaking of the pledge to send a Labour representative to the Peace Conference, he said it was a breach of the Prime Minister’s pledge at a moment of grave labour unrest and suspicion. It would increase the people’s "suspicions and breed Bolshevism faster than it could be destroyed.

_M r Gompers and four other American labour delegates have arrived. They conferring with British and French labour for the purpose of founding a pew international organisation which will influence the peace ■terms towards improving the standard of life of the workers of all countries.

SUSPICIOUS FOREIGNERS ARRESTED. LONDON, Jan.2o. foreigners found hiding in a Norwegian ship from Rotterdam "were arrested at- Deal. One is believed to be a German or Austrian officer and the others Russians. All were unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves.