Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 29 December 1917, Page 6

Great Britain

BRITISH LABOUR POLICY. WAR AIMS MANIFESTO. 1$ : ■' : Jrfcvg''' ■■ *" , '.' ,v - ; ■: •''•'''■''■'' '•""'' '■ '■' SUPPORT ASKED FOR MILITARY ;***« :«„ * '' *' '"' Press Association—Copyright, Austra- • lian ! and N.Z.-Cable Association ' (Received 1.15 p.m.) Lohdon, December 28. | .The National Conference of the Trade" Union Congress and Labour :' Party, was held;iat' Li \Westmi!Vstov to consider, a manifesto' on the War " aims: Nine hundred delegates were 1 present..; ;'; ■ '■■.-:;■ ■ Mr Arthur Henderson, in movmgj tpe, Adoption .of % manifesto, d'e j labour policy' was* as follows: . ..>.■ |aJV To secure a, settlement as J;., speedily as, possible founded on. the ■ of the security of. Democracy ;.',._ (2). Territorial. adjustments .. innst not be dictated by aunexation."V ist ,or., imperialist design's or reasons' jpf -military .strategy, but in ; the inieresW. of progressive civilization Afo th©-peacp o£-the, policy! after war must- not; be founded upon the economicA'oppressiqn or com-, mercialfeolationlM the German peo- . pi**'.. l l '\ [ '*■ : ' "■• :<it "■- ' ''"•■ -' No, statement, said Mr Henderson,; could be satisfactory unlessi• Ht'■• cona^ pletely discredited aggressive ~uinV tarisnrahd substituted higher corieepfcidna oi international responsibility.-. Every nation included in the- piropos'4' | of Nations should- pledge itself to make common cause 'agalnsf any nation breaking its pledges to j th© league. ■■■■■■■'■ _ /■ ' ■'■ ■>: \jsSs§ ' ' Mr Henderson concluded by asking that the military efforts should. be 1 l f supplemeiailed morally, and .politically...