The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-14

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Thir- 1
ty-three leaders of British labor,
including all the most prominent,
have issued a manifesto in sup
port of the League Of Nations,
according to information re-
ceived here by the American Al
lance for Labor and Democracy.
Among the, signers are not only
the conservative leaders, Hender-
son, Clynes, Bowerman, Thomas,
Adamson and rt-Bunning,
but also the radicals, Robert
Smile, Ramsay Macdonald AMI
Phillip Snowden.
The manifesto was issued, says the
Alliance, in connection with the new
organization to get the British masses
behind the League, in order to Sin
struct and unite all sections of public
opinion both among manual workers
and brain workers and also to serve
as national channel for putting for
ward such amendments as time may
prove necessary in the League of Ma
tions.''
The new organization, The League
! of Nations Union, has achieved a bril-
liant victory in uniting radical and
conservative labor in support Of the
League-which has not been accom-
plished In any other country. The
British leaders defence Of the League
| is couched in the following form:
Manifesto.
I. The late world war has cost the
combatant nations 100000 in men
killed, and 100000 in men wounded
Or MANNED, about 100000, 100000 in
money, has left Great Britain saddled
with vast debt of over f7,000,00O,0 900,
and has plunged Europe into indus
trial chaos. All this waste Of life and
wealth could have been avoided If
there had only been League of Ma
| tons before the war.
2. Peace has left many great ques-
| tions unsettled in Eastern Europe and
the Far East which may produce an
other and yet greater war, even in our
!! lifetime, if it be not prevented.
3. The next war, If it comes, will
be far more terrible and. destructive
even than the late war, for it will
begin with all the aerial and sub
| marine fleets with which the late war
left off, only the destructive forces
will be infinitely greater. Such a. new
war will mean the destruction of Eur
opean civilization, of European indus
try, and Of the white working mans
standard of life.
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greater war is one we must either pre-.
pare for by vaster ornaments than
ever, or prevent. The first alternative
is unthinkable. There remains only
prevention. Prevention is possible, by
the League of Nations to enforce
peace There is no other way.
5. The war has left behind 1t sit:
uation Of the utmost difficulty as re.
CARDS finance, industry and food fol
the nations, which can only be
successfully met by pooling the
resources of all the nations for the
industrial recovery Of the world.
i 6. AS the standard of life is the
main factor in the cost of production
it is vain to raise it in one, nation II
it remains low in another. For thit
purpose International machinery
amongst the governments of the ma
tons is absolutely necessary, and thu
League of Nations, with it's Interna'
tional Labor Office. should supply thi.
need.
7. The League Of Nations will no.
supplant the Labor "Internationale,'
but will supplement it. 1t will help tt
do amongst the governments what til.
"Internationale' is seeking to do il
the industrial world. The more pow
erfully Labor supports and is repre-
scented in the League of Nations, tn,
more can each help the other. w,
need both the League Of Nations ant