LABOUR AND IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 5

LABOUR AND IRELAND.

MESSAGE TO PREMIER.

PEACE CONFERENCE URGED.

NEW WAR AN OUTRAGE. By Talesman—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 12.5 *.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Sept. «. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and the national executive of the Labour Party sent the following message to Mr. Lloyd George on Tnesday night:—

•* The Irish negotiations have entered » most critical stage. It would be a disaster if the deep spontaneous feelings in favour of peace now pervading the two .countries were allowed to evaporate while their representatives engaged in exchanging controversial Notes.

■' The. British Government, in our opinion, should invite representatives of the Irish people to meet face to fact with British representatives in a conference. The promotion of peace involves personal negotiation in a confe.rer.ee j a order that, the British Government and Irish leaders may escape from a verbal controversy and arrive at a recognition of the realities of the problem.

" The termination of negotiations wou!i, according to you, mean resumption of hostilities in an intensified form. We declare most emphatically that a new war would outrage the moral sense of the whole world and would never receive the sanction of the British people. The trad.* union and Labour movement of this countrv must resist to the utmost further reference to the arbitration of fom-e and insist on the assembly of a oe.ace conference without delay. We behove that this is the desire of citizens of both countries, and that once continuous conversations supersede written communications many obstacles to reconciliation will di .appear andtthe negotiations will be carried to a successful issue."

BE VALEBA'S ANALOGY.

MARGARINE FOR. BUTTER.

NATURAL UNION WANTED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 6.

De Valera, in a statement to the press, Rays. —" It seems a grievous political sin in these days to keep your eyes open, and common sense is sneered at as rhetoric British Imperial salesmen are trying to sell Ireland second-rate political margarine, and are very angry bac \se we do not accept the butter label they put on. Ireland wants butter, and will not be deceived into thinking she has got it until !t is delivered.

" We have the will and an ardent desire for peace, a.nd for that reason refuse to see things other than they are. If England, is issuing an ultimatum, let it be an ultimatum. Pitt's work must be scrapped and the debris cleared away so as to get a foundation for a real and natural union between Britain and Ireland."