Evening star., 1918-02-24
Will Seek Immediate ParIey
With Teuton People as Next
Step in Program.
MINIMALIST RUSSIANS
TELEGRAPH ENDORSEMENT
Meeting at London Votes to Send
Five Delegates for Conference
in United States.
By the Associated Press.

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| LONDON, February 23.-The intera1-
lied labor conference, which ended its
session here today, has accepted the war
aims program as enuneiated by British
labor December %, and the next step
probably will be the calling of an inter
national conference at an early date, in
eluding both labor and socialism.
At luncheon given today in honor of
the foreign delegates to the conference.
Arthur Henderson,, former member of
the war cabinet and leader of the labor
party. described these aims as meaning
the establishment Of a league of ma
tions, involving international CO. opera-
tion for disarmament ana the preven-
tfon of warfare in the future. the res-
toration Of Belgium. Serbia. Rumania
and Montenegro, and only territorial
changes in the future based on Justice
and right.
Ready to Go on With War.
Mr. Henderson declared that the peace
aimed at was of the peoples and that
the peoples must stand behind it, and
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go on with the war until all the con-
! ditions insisted upon for permanent
peace were met.
! and labor member of parliament. said
! that the next step of labor and social
! ism was to bring the matter before the
German and Austrian people them
I selves.
The program as adopted corresponds
in general to the declarations Of Pres
ident Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George. 1t has the support of the So
cialist or labor parties Of England.
France, Italy. Belgium, Portugal, Ru-
mania and South Africa The social
revolutionary or minimalist Russians
/ itelegraphed an Endorsement of British
| labor's war aims and added that they
| had tried to send delegates to London.
but that Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik
/ foreign minister, had refused passports.
| Divergent Views Given.
| The discussions Of the conferences
war aims were enlivened by the diverg-
ent views expressed by various delega-
ttions. particularly the Italian. on the
subject of territorial adjustments. but
fairly satisfactory compromise or
generalization was reached in each
case where a disagreement was threat
u.
ience was in no way pacif1st or pro-Ger-
maan, and the discussions revealed a
sincere resolve among widely separated
factions to reach unity.
| The program which finally resulted
was passed unanimously. The French
delegate. Albert Thomas. the former
minister of munitions. declared:
| "The war aims as outlined are the
absolute minimum which we will ac-
cept, and if anybody tries to foist on
US peace not embodying these terms
| it will mean a revolution which will
not halt until justice has been secured
even if that takes fifteen years"
/ Mr.. Henderson also declared that the
program could be regarded as the mini
\ mum demands of the laboring classes
of all the allied countries.
| Emile Vandervelde. socialist leader in
the Belgian chamber of deputies and
minister Of state, said: Whether we
are victorious or not, these will remain
our war aims. and We shall strive un-
remittingly for Them
Likely to Take Exception.
J The only section Of the conferences
Iments are likely to take exception il
the clause insisting on an immediate
| conference between the socialists o1
| the allied countries and Germany, and
this clause had the enthusiastic sup
port of the entire conference. Besides
adopting the formal war aims program
the conference adopted a resolution tC
convene an International socialist con-
ference to sit concurrently with the
official peace conference and also de!
manded. that at least one socialis,
should be included by every nation ir
the official delegation at the peace con.
ference.
4 The conference voted to send five dele
gates to the United States 'for the pur
pose Of conferring with representatives O
the American democracy on the war sit
uation.''
Delegates to America.
The delegation will be headed by Ca
mile Huysmans, secretary Of the interna
tional socialist organization. the other
being selected by the French. British, Ital
, ian and Belgian socialists, respectively.
IF the Americans won't come to US, W
must go to- them." said one of the dele
gates.
Mr.. Vandervelde declared: "It is abso
lutely essential to have the American
with US in our effort to establish a bssi
for a democratic peace. The day whel
American labor will Join US is surely no
far distant. The United States may hav
, been late in entering the war. but. can
rot believe that the American WorkinI
classes will be late in joining US In shoui
drieng labors share Of the wars respon
sibility."