A Special Conference of the British Labour Movement, held at
Westminster on Friday week, accepted the Memorandum on War Aims drawn up by the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress and the Executive Committee of the Labour Party. The Conference, which was said to represent 3,400,000 votes, rejected by a majority of two to one a motion for delay, and rejected by 343 to 12 Mr. Havelock. Wilson's vigorous - protest against the Memorandum, which he described. as " the most contradictory document ever presented to a Trade -Union Congress." Mr. Hen- derson summarized the proposals as -requiring a speedy. settlement " founded on the principles of democracy and security," and as excluding either annexationist or Imperialist designs " for territorial adjustment or an economic war after the war against the German people. " We all of us," he said, "recognize that the evil effects of Germany's policy of aggressive militarism and world domination must be destroyed." So long as the Labour Party holds •to that view, the essential unity of the nation will be preserved.
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