New Britain herald., 1917-08-10
NO CONQUEST, CRY
 OF ENGLISH LABOR
''Peace Program Also Deals
 With Situation After War
OPPOSES CRUSHING GERMANY


 Eviction of Turk From World Fam lily and Abandonment of African
 Exploitation Included
 London, Aug. 10.-The conference of the British labor party held at Westminster today voted to send dele gates to the Stockholm conference by 1,046,O00 to 50,000. The conference was in ah uproar which ended only when the results of the card vote was announced.
 A special executive sub committee of the British labor party committee prepared memorandum upon the is- sues raised in the war and the ideas or British labor in regard to peace proposals. It occupies more than two columns in the Daily Telegraph. The memorandum was presented to the labor conference today and will be submitted to special conference August 21, prior to it's proposed sub- mission successively to the allied and international socialist conference. Briefly the memorandum is a strong endorsement of the demand for rep -arat1on and restoration in behalf of Belgium and other invaded countries: declaration in favor of the right of Individual people to set:le their own destinies; liberation of oppressed peoples from Turkish n!s:overnment and a demand for the establishment of league of nations for the main tenance of peace and the el;minat ton of war from the world
 The memorandum indicates that Germany is threatening the very ex- istenee of independent nationalities, striking blow at all faith in treaties, and declares that the victory of Ger many will be the defeat and destruc- ton of democracy and liberty. It disavows the desire to crush Germany politically or economically and de- clares that while the party is resolved to resist any attempt to transfer the war into a war of conuuest
 The memorandum heartily con- graduates the Russian people on the destruction of czardom and warmly welcomes assistance to the cause of human freedom, in council no less than on the battle field that is now being accorded by the American peo- ple"
 It declares war Is being waged against the ruthless imperialists of autocratic governments and con- tinueS:
 Appeal to Enemy Labor.
 ''The conference asks the peonles of the several nations, particularly socialist labor comrades in Germany, Austr1a-Hungary, Bulgaria and Fur key, whether 1t is not possible for the fnI 1f
 from the world to bring this mon- strous conflict to a summary con- clusion conformable to the principles or the internationale."
 After welcoming the formula of no annexat1ons and no indemnfties ofSthe council of Workmen's and Soldiers delegates the memorandum declares:
 Of all war aims none is so inn portant as that there should hence forth on earth be no more war. Who ever triumphs the world will have less unless some effective method of pre- venting war can be found
 For this, reliance is largely placed on the complete Characterization of Germany and Austria Hungary, which now cannot fail to place themselves in line with other civilized nations, on frank abandonment of every form Of imperialism, on the suppression Of secret diplomacy, on the placing of the foreign policy under the control of elected legislators, on the absolute res possibility of the foreign ministers of each country to the legislature on con- certed action for the limitation of armaments and the abolition of profit making of armament firms"
 It is further declared that the essen- tial condition of treaty of peace will be the establishment of "a superna- tional authority or league of nations adhered to by all present belligerents while every other independent state in the world should be pressed to join."'
 The scope and constitution of the proposed league are set forth. includ- ing machinery for settling internatio- nal disputes judically and mediating disputes which are injusticiable and the formation of an international le- will be represented.
 Return of Alsace- Lorraine.
 The memorandum rcprobates "the crime against the peace of the world v whereby Alsace and Lorraine were torn from France in 1871 and de mands that they be allowed to realiza their desire to be restored to France. The necessity is recognized for secur- ing the legitimate interests of the people of Italy in the Adriatic and Aegean without precluding the same recognition Of the claims of other peoples.
 The question of Poland should be settled in accordance with the wishes of Poles, and in all cases, including LuXemburg, in which independence has been temporarily destroyed each must be allowed to settle it's own des- tiny. Hope is expressed that Palestine will he free from Turkish domination and become a free state under inter- laa atinlaal nj ees ta 3.-hict