22 JANUARY 1927, Page 3

' Since then - other messages have been sent to England

from Moscow informing the members of the General Council that they are cowards, traitors, Judases, slippery eels, flunkies and what not. This invective ought to be extremely useful to those sensible Labour leaders who are trying harder than ever to purge the unions of Soviet influenee. They must be well aware -that they have reached a parting of the ways. The choice is quite simply between peace and war. Mr. Kirkwood, speaking at Edinburgh on Friday, January 14th, left his audience in no doubt of the intention of himself and his friends. "We are not out for peace in industry but for war,' lie said. "The advocates of peace, the 'men of good will,' are in comfortable circumstances.".