GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1918, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

AGRICULTURAL LABOR IN CANADA, 'Hess Association—On ght, Aus'-rs- ; Han and N.Z, Gallic Association v. Ottawa, February 22. • The Government is mobilising women for agricultural purposes, also 1 25,000 schoolboys for work with farmers, INTER-ALLIED LABOR CONFERENCE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z, Cable Association London, February 21. The real business of the Inter-Allied Labor and Socialist Conference'lias I been postponed owing to the nonj arrival of the French, Italian and Servian delegates. Only Britain, Belgium and Uonmania are represented. Air Ogden, chairman of the Parliamentary committee of the Trade Union Congress, who presided, described the gathering as unique, and the first evidence of the workers’ determination to take a deciding part in the war. The Conference decided to emphatically repudiate the suggestion that the conference is under German influence. It is understood tiuM the principle of a league of nations is (approved, but there is a cleavage of opinion on the question of territorial adjustments. The Daily Chronicle says' that the Socialist conference may be important if it argues upon a common de-ela.-ation. A similar conference last year, proved merely a polygot and chaos, but considerable progress lias since been made. It is regrettable that America, Australasia and South Africa are not represented, especially because British Labor’s extra-Euro-pean proposals are; the . weakest feature of the war aims. How could the iyoung democracies of South Africa, (Australia, .New Zealand and the American Pacific Coast enjoy a peaceful ,development in freedom in the future ! in tlie face of the menace ot German aggression