LABOR AND WAR.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 3

LABOR AND WAR.

CONFERENCES FUTILE AT PRESENT. TILL FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY SECURED. Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. The Labor Executive met members of the House of Commons and received Messrs Henderson’s, Macdonald’s and Wardle’s report on the Paris Conference. The General Federation of Trade Unions reaffirmed its decision not to attend a conference whereat they would meet enemy delegates until Franco-Belgian territory was evacuated and reparation promised. Mr Gompers cabled that American Labor was not attending, as it considers the conference inopportune and cannot be productive of good. Mr Appleton replied: * ‘ The British Federation of Trades Unions concurs. It considers conferences futile until the freedom of democracy is secured.”