27 JANUARY 1917, Page 2

The Labour Party met in conference at Manchester on Tuesday

and by a majority of six to one approved of the Executive's notion in helping Mr. Lloyd- Gearge to form his Cabinet. Mr. George Wardle, in a very able presidential address, showed that Labour from every point of view had- been right in co-operating heartily in the war. He regretted the existence- of a dissentient minority—very atm% we believe, though noisy at times--for tan national cause, In his view, "embodied every- true .hope for which. - • they had ever stood and every real aspiration for peace- to whisk they had ever given their unflinching adhesion." Mr. Wardie claimed as one of the most remarkable results of the war " the wait in which the country had assimilated and put into practice through the Government the-basic principles which theyfthe Labour Party; had advocated for two or three decades." Mr. ArtInwaffeederaere, • M.P., defended his own position and that of his Labour colleague* in the Ministry, and was rewarded with an overwhelming vote. of • Confidence. The Labour Party agrees with the-Disler partieenhat it is.no time to. herpon domestic quarrels when the welfare of the country and the Empire is at stake.