2 APRIL 1921, Page 2

The Left Wing of the LL.P. is largely composed of

men who were conscientious objectors during the war. They objected to fight Germans, but they are rapturously ready to fight their own countrymen at the dictation of a foreign organization. What people 1 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald pointed out that the Left Wing had been definitely instructed from Moscow to remain inside the LL.P., like spies inside the fortress, in eider to disrupt it and get a majority for the Third Inter- national. He asked the Conference to give such a vote against affiliation that tho issue would be settled once for all. The response to this appeal was, as we have seen, decisive, but the Left Wing afterwards decided to secede from the LIP. and join the Communist Party.