NOISY SCENES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10082, 21 September 1918, Page 8

NOISY SCENES

ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE PEACE SUGGESTIONS CAUSE HEATED DISCUSSION. By Telccraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian ami N'.Z. Cable Association LONDON. September 19. There were several noisy scenes at the Inter-Allied Labour Conference, particularly when Mrs Snowden proposed a resolution that the Allied Governments should be requested to use wisely and sympathetically the opportunity afforded by the Austrian Note, and make an immediate .joint statement of the Allied peace terms. Other pacifists produced similar resolutions. ■Mr Will Thorno and other British delegates protested against individual delegates moving "freak" resolutions apart from the Rroups to which they belonged. Mr James Sexton, on behalf of the oockers. amidst an uproar, moved "that the conference agrees to hang the Ka.iser and his associates upon lamp-posts." This was greeted with shouts, laughter, and cheers, particularly from the foreign delegates. Mr Thorne presented a resolution demanding the removal of the Hobenzollerns and Hapsburgs. The Wair Aims Committee reported on the Austrian Note. It stated that Austria apparently desires to blame the Entente for continuing the war, and aims at strengthening the internal cohesion of the Austrian Em>ire. But a purely negative reply from the Entente would incur a heavy responsibility., and ths Entento should present a collective declaration of its war aims, including President Wilson's "fourteen points." and secure a statement of the enemy's war aims, to enable the Labour movement to study both. The conference adopted President Wilson's fourteen points' programme for the world's peace. ATTITUDE ON RUSSIAN QUESTION. (Received September 20, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. September 19. At the Labour Conference Mr Arthur Henderson stated that the committee was not unanimous with regard to tho Russian question. The majority desired to prevent Entente intervention serving the cause of reaction, whereas the Americans favoured a declaration that intervention aimed at arresting the German influence on the Bolsheviks, who had suppressed the great majority of the Russian workers. But the Entente military successes should not he used as a pretext for arresting the democratjsation of Russia. A discussion on the Austrian Noto followed. Mr Gompers said the Americans were willing to support the majority resohttion, but did not agree with the suggestion that the Entente had not been responsive to peace feelers.