INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17426, 21 September 1918, Page 7

INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE

PACIFIST PROPOSALS NOT FAVOURED. REPORT ON AUSTRIAN NOTE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 19. Several noisy scenes occurred at the In-ter-Allied Labour Conference, particularly when Mr 3 Snowden (wife of the pacifist M.P.) proposed a resolution that the Allied Governments be requested to use wisely ajid sympathetically the opportunity afforded by the Austrian Note, and make an immediate joint statement of the Allied peace terms Other pacifists moved similar resolutions. Mr Win Thorne, M.P., and other British delegates protested against individual delegates moving freak resolutions apart from the groups to which they belonged. Mr Sexton, on behalf of the dockers, amidst uproar, moved that the conference agree to hang the Kaiser and his associates to !amp-po3ts. This motion was greeted with shouts of laughter and cheers, particularly from tha foreign delegates. Mr Thorne presented a resolution demanding the removal of the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs. War-aims Committee reported oo the Austrian Note, stating that Austria apparently desired to blame the Entente for continuing the war, and aimed at strengthening the Austrian Empire's internal cohesion; a purely negative replj from J lie lintento would, incur Hesvy responsibility. The Entente should rrteseijt a collective declaration of their waraims, including President Wilson's 14 points, and secure statements of . the energy's war-aims. The conference adopted the whole of the 14 points enunciated by President Wilson m his statement on the fundamentals requisite for a lasting peace. RUSSIAN QUESTION AND AUSTRIA!® NOTE. AMERICA'S VIEWS STATED. LONDON, September 19. , (Received Sept. 20, at 7.30 p.m.) At the Inter-Allied Labour Conference Mr Henderson stated that the committee was not unanimous on the Russian question. The majority desired to prevent Entente intervention from serving the caso of the reactionary parties, whereas the Americana favoured a declaration that intervention aimed at arresting German influence on the Bolshevists, who had suppressed the great majority of Russian workers ; but. Entente military successes should not be used as a pretest for arresting the democratisation of Russia. A discussion on the Austrian Note followed. Mr S._ Oompers said the Americans were willing to support the majority resolution, but did not agree with the suggestion that the Entente had been nonresponsive to peace feelers.