The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-10-11
INTER RALLIED
CONFERENCE
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TeCOIu J1cil again, eANSpI III oiiSi
substance. We said: "You cannot
meet the representatives of the min
GRITTY from Germany in neutral
country. The German Government
is not foolish enough to grant pass
ports to the representatives of her
minority to go outside her boundaries
to conspire against itself. And we
said further; even were it possible
for her minority to come to the
conference and agree to your pro-
gram; if they attempted to go back
home, and carry it into effect, they
would be Immediately subject to
court martial and would be shot, and
we said, we won't ask the German
minority to commit suicide; it is to
them we hope in the future when
victory is accomplished, to extend
the hand of good fellowship and fra
ternity, and together build the tenn
pie of world peace" But, we said,
"the records of peace-times, the ad-
mission of the German workers in
the Worlds Mining Congress at Carl
sbad in 1913, the Congress of Dock
Workers in Berlin in the spring of
1914, and many others, of their
utter lack of power and authority to
deal with such democratic policies
should prove the falacy of expecting
results from such course. And
we said the spectacle presented dur
ing the war of the German Social
lists voicing their protest on the floor
of the Rheistag at the unfair pro-
visions of the Brest-Litovsk treaty,
and yet not daring to register their
votes against it, but compelled to
sit silent and not vote at all, and a
similar exhibition when the Ruman-
ian treaty with its indemnity of 3d.
100000 came before the Reichstag
for ratification, give glaring testi-
mony of the still further weakened
power of her democratic forces and
the increased power and arrogance
of her Military. No, friends, we
said, the evidence is too clear that
the Military forces of Germany have
always-and still are-robbing the
forces of Democracy of the right to
function at home, and would deny
it to US if successful in the conflict;
and there can be no peace in the
world until that machine is broken
and its menace removed for all time,
that is the task America has set her
hand to, that is the task the free
peoples of the world have leagued
themselves together to accomplish
and American Labor will discuss
peace with no one, until the job is
finished, and the job can only be
finished by force of arms on the bat
tlefield.
The American War Labor Mission
that visited Britain and France last
Spring, presented that decision to the
leaders of Allied Labor in confer
ences held during our visit at both
London and Paris, and to the rank
and file of Labor in both countries
in mass meetings held in all of the
industrial centerS Following the
Paris conference, the French work
ers together with the leaders of the
majority Socialists, officially de.
clared their endorsement of our po-
sition, while the rank and file of
British Labor have been clamoring
for several months to have this ques-
ton submitted to a referendum vote
The writer in submitting his re-
port to the Last Federation Conven-
ton, predicated that the next Con-
gress in Britain would follow in the
footsteps of France. However, due
to the fact that another inter-allied
labor conference was to convene in
London following the adjournment of
the Congress, the policy was en-
dorsed and passed on without extend
ed debate to the conference. The
fact that the defeatists had prepared
several months ago, a resolution
calling on the Congress to demand
that the Government open peace ne
gotiations Immediately, and withdrew
it, was in itself significant of the
change that had taken place. The
Conference accepted unanimously the
proposal submitted by America