The Labour Party Conference at Nottingham was opened on Wednesday
with-an excellent speech by Mr. Purdy, a Tyneside ship- builder. The enemy, he said, had shown no sign of his willingness to accept the peace terms formulated by Mr. Lloyd George, President Wilson, or the Labour Party. If he would not accept these terms, then we must fight on. AGerman peace would be inconclusive, and lead to a future war. We must " carry on until a clean peace is secured-which will enable the peoples of the world to live in security." As for Russia, he said that a separate peace between Russia and the enemy would be disastrous to democracy. Mr. Purdy, we are sure, expressed the real feelings of the vast majority of British workmen in his courageous and patriotic address. The Conference decided by a narrow majority to refer the draft scheme for the reorganization of the party to another Conference to be held a month hence.
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