The Labour Party Conference at Birmingham ended on Friday week,
when a number of interesting resolutions were passed upon a great variety of topics. Among them was one criticising the Insurance Act in what Mr. Ramsay MacDonald described as " a very pious and non-committal" way. Another. much more strongly phrased, protested against the "anti- German policy" of Sir Edward Grey. A third resolution approved of a proposal to report on whether a general strike would be an effective means of preventing a war. There was a vigorous discussion upon a proposal that the Government's Reform Bill should only be accepted by the party if it included women's franchise. This resolution was opposed by the miners' delegates, but after an impassioned appeal from Mrs. Anderson (Miss Macarthur) it was carried by 919 votes to 686.
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