On Wednesday the Labour Party discussed the affairs of the
world, of which, it must be added, the speakers seemed to know very little. A member of the British Socialist Party proposed a general strike to prevent the Government from " open and covert participation in attacks on the Soviet Republic," but even Mr. Smillie deprecated such. a piece of mad folly, and only a score of delegates supported it. Mr. Thomas explained that the National Union of Railwaymen was not prepared to act alone in thwarting the Government's policy in- regard to Russia and Poland. That was the business, he thought, of the Labour movement as a whole. The Conference adopted resolutions in. favour of interfering with the Governments of Hungary, Poland and Finland, but denounced all interference with the Bolsheviks. We cannot account, on any intelligible principle, for this startling inconsistency.
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