LABOR DISAGREEMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15212, 10 May 1920, Page 8

LABOR DISAGREEMENT.

HENDERSON DENOUNCES PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP. LONDON, April I.— -That the international movement m Europe is rushing away ahead of the alias held by British labor leadcVs is evidenced in' a highly significant letter sent by sucb a renowned intern a^tionalist as Arthur Henderson to Cajmfllo Huysmann, \ secretary of tho at Amsterdam. , Writ^iig ; m the name of the British Laber party, Henderson registers- a bluntly •worded complaint that the wild theories propounded by Eurppean Socialists'; , - bavp/captured ijhe .in.ternatiPnpyi machinery aro interfering, with the progi'ess 'of the British class; nipvement, and hints that British laborists arc considoring. the , advisability of witlidrawing from European assbeiaiions. '■<. , The efforfs of tbe present intcrnatipnal body, says Henderson, are not based on tbe principle of fundamental .working class"' solidarity, but' on an apripri identity of tbbught 'wMcb is 'yifon.gly' assumfcd to dkist • among cP- j p'p'e.rating grpups.y The British - party has no. belief, m, prpletanan'dict'atorlahip as- a principld pf-; action' nor is : therQf. any- desiro to incorporate it m t.hp. -British vocabulary jas ( a ysynpnyin ■ !fc^-'de_ipcrft-'cy.< '^.- /■ ■■•■■:/(-■. ;y :: .t -i,) / ■ j "While the. British Labor -^ Party j holds' itself still -ready .t0,.--.-,CP:'oporato jWitb* Labor- _iidl ' Socialist parties m LOt-e"?" 'cbnitriest, the present ..situation |iriciines; : cine fe ask 5 v^ethbY -the Internaiibnai' is_ in'd^'d a ■ symbol -of - intornatipnal xv'Prlcing^ -class ' unity or Whether 'it hfts ribt- becpme v a centre frpm which 'Sivisi^ Mfluebccs radiatp to y^le^troy the/ solidarity ' pf natipnal , If '*'s%s letter cohceptioh i'a^fto^.determine the'^bharaetoi* of the Lnternaf ipnale,. riipre^than:. pnp;iiational pa^fty. /will bey obliged; 'to consider \ylietiher' . they . .pught^n'ot • tp separatb f i'din- a- 'sbiiroe •ef weakuesk 'rather than p_"'strcngth t "" -.-> firitlT'' "' tt ;-mrrr