2 APRIL 1921, Page 2

At the conference of the Independent Labour Party at South-

port on Monday it was decided by an overwhelming majority not to accept affiliation to the Third, or Communist, Interna- tional. The figures were 97 for affiliation and 521 against. Mr. Palin, of Bradford, who moved the resolution against affiliation, justly pointed out that one of the twenty-one con- ditions proposed from Moscow, the seat of the Third Inter- national, was that the workers should prepare for victory not by Parliamentary means but by " bloody civil war." He could not understand how those who had accepted the principles of the LIP. could now vote in favour of war. Neither can any other sensible person.