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Show BRITISH OPPOSE ECOKWARi I Labor Party States Position in Election Manifesto; Against Draft. tOXbOX, Nov. 20, via Montreal. The British I.ahur party in Us election manl-fftsto manl-fftsto to the voii;i'3 condemns any form of fvionoinic' war and demands ati an essential es-sential part of the peace treaty that the International labor charter be incorporated incor-porated in the structure of a league of nations. The party demands the imme-tiial imme-tiial i- willidi awal of allied for.-.'H from in.s.si;i jiiul Hie Irnmediate restoration of Die urk:r.V inti-rnaLionalc; drtnandw freedom tor ireliind i i id Irnlia as a democratic demo-cratic 1-IkIiL. and urn- self-dcierniination for iiriiish subject p.-npU-. It advocates the reinow.l of all wnriinio restrictions and the complete abolition of conscription. conscrip-tion. The manifesto snvs the Labor party re-K'ards re-K'ards land liar imiaUza t ion t as a vital iiecesHity and ures Immediate nalionall-zai.iun nalionall-zai.iun of mines, railways, shipping, arma-inenLs arma-inenLs and eleciric power. It demands the imiuediare erection of one million o-.d hous-s hy th.. state and better pay and conditions tor uorki n'nien. The party declarer its opposition to tar'ffs. A special tax on capital Is ursed, so as to meet the payment of the war debt. Insistence Is laid on a heavily jrraduated direct tax, with the raising of the exemption ex-emption limit. This is stated to be labor's la-bor's definition of the conscription of Wealth. The manifesto says the Labor party is the real women's partv, and that it supports sup-ports complete adult suffrage and equal pay for both sexes and deprecates the fui million of a sex party. |