The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-14

ing or abetting a separate peace be- tween Russia and Germany and be- cause the postal department is op- posed to international socialism in general since it negates the existence of national governments.
 The failure to realize the domin- ance of the socialist spirit in Russia is necessarily to misunderstood en- tirely the new spirit which animates the most important of the powers ill this great war against Germany and the Central Powers. The recent cleo tions throughout Russia resulted ill practically complete socialist victor ies No other party has any power to speak of, and even those whose interests would appear to be closer to capitalist imperialism in Russia ire affected by socialist ideas which vitiate the irmness of the rest.
 Russia therefore is the great na- ton which will dominate the Stock holm conference. The Russian so- cialists who will there attend have i already let it be known how dcfi- nitely is set tho policy which they will adopt towards Germany as long as the kaiger and his bureaucrats are dominant therein.
 It is quite possible that the Rus sian socialists have such ideas con oerning the bringing about of peace, that they would be negatived if sub mittad before an official council in i England, France, Italy or the ! United States. while United States socialists attending, British, French CT Italian radicals might approve them.
 That is possibly the vision that i5 re2lly apprehended. Otherwise it is difficult to see how separate peace could be brought about be- tween Russia and the Central Powers by such a conference.
 The resignation of Arthur Tender son who has been Lloyd Georges right hand man since the resigna- ton of Asquith, naturally causes a political hub bub in England. It is 1 reasonable enough to believe that i it will arouse considerable concern. 1 It is reasonable to conceive that il may cause a cabinet crisis and re- sultant friction with labor. It IS ] likely to cause no such thing just now, for the government cannot af l ford it. That it will excite sup pressed CT explosive rage in the ranks of the bellcose and imperial ia'ic press of the real rulers of Eng land one can well believe, but Lloyd ! George possesses one positive gift whatever else may be his virtues, an exceedingly precise appraisemant of the value of labor cooperation and is not at all blind to the dangers possible by reason Of a labor crisis In this respect he is head and shoulders over that aristocratic re- gime which had had control over the destinies of Great Britain fo1 so long.
 Any observing person may easily note that the future, of this war de bends for it's outcome more upon tho policies which Russia will adopt thGn on anything else in the imme diate present. Hence the importance of gratifying the request of Russia
 by an attendance upon the part O.
 the American, the British end the
 French delegates at the Stockholm
 conference. For that roaosn it il
 not impossible that there is more method in the Henderson rcsigna ton than might be at once apparent
 A member of the labor party in sev
 cring his connection with the cabi net, he at once sewers all possible
 connection between the government and the participation by Englishmei in that conference. He allows hi! colleagues to go their way in tht cabinet without in any way involv ing them in responsibility for wha
 the conference may do or wha
 it may leave undone. There an;
 then all official approval is removed
 from such participation but the par
 ticipation is practically assured.
 No one is more likely to wei
 come this than Lloyd George. None of the powers want this war to las a moment longer than it has to.