BRITISH LABOR.
NO PEA€©iflSY STALEMATE, j{ GERMAN ;.GOJ r ) -h •' - Juliet! j \ Mr; Arthur Hender»6p,' mtervievred iqr Jteuter'p, stated'thafi thVworMers of-ibhk Allied c»nntrjte» would not com/promise* o!n essential ■• issues, «*nor surrender to militarism be -Imperialism/ nor lagree to a sinister paaco abased ;b t n , a,'military-stale-mate: >.., The worker wanted peace based upon an understanding; araong^ all ifche belligerents in a«cox>danpe -/with tber principles of international? justice! and; self-, determination^ The< w.orkerSjw.era opposed to peace, of conquest, and-, annexations ' imposed by ''either -fAda.':- ---.The workers weie pledged to ithe • creation ,/o'f .arynew* international system which wouldupie- \ ■rant -wai*; The 1 keystone of >tlie (system wonld be a League of 'Nations/ inoluding >the x present i! belligerents- arid \; neutrals. The laague " would''(mvolveitine*^suppression f ofi isocfet ; diplomacy "and"ther^ublication of all inter-State treaiiejs, ■••which, must not the .-prjnpiples of :iblierleague, : iand.vi!he abolition" of tCopipul? sory ' military "service.- ilt ■would; also -re-,! quire »a^'.penuniciiationv of" the" proposed. economic boycott.' tigiinsfc : Germany. itMri ; Henderson ! pointed out '< that^ fthe>^n^fnb-:^ randum of the war aimsoJ' theclnterr; Allied Conference that the woS*ki ers ihad'tiot; s.ottghtvto renter. a^iplenayy conference.. -with 'the- ballieerents.- ; - /-The ti'oi'kers Tfiought trf- unite -withAfther;.GermaiT people >to • overthrow -%he of niilitarAsm,' and Impsvialism, and to cpn' vince r :theivGepmans tha^ the free 1 Western democracies Vould not. submit to; a German^ peacev>aß' imposed' ;bn-r>Tlkraane' and Bumania. vc lf- the Germans still' pevsiated to. uphold Prussian militarism! thej war would be\ prolonged till one side? was completely subjugated as the < Ahler^-' 'can trade unionists* desire. - . -• •■> -■:-;•
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14634, 18 June 1918, Page 5
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