INTERNATIONAL WORKERS
HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE BRITISH DELEGATE’S VIEWS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright AMSTERDAAI, December 11. (Received Dec. 12, at 5.5 a.m.) Air Arthur Henderson, addressing the International Trade Union Peace Conference at The Hague, said that peace was most vital to all workays. There were no non-combatants in modern warfare. Women and children were exposed to the same risks of death and mutilation ns the actual fighters. The federation aimed at proclaiming an international strike in the event of war, but the cause of peace would already be lost if this became necessary. Labour believed that peace could only be secured by encouraging every nation to seek guarantees of security within the League of Nations, which should act in the direction of progressive disarmament. They must demand the inclusion and full recognition of Russia; also a change in the methods of teaching history which show glorified military achievements and ignored the more vital aspects of democratic growth.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18735, 13 December 1922, Page 5
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