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Show BUSH RADICALS ARE HELDJN CHECK Labor Conference Refuses to Attempt to Break Up the Cabinet. NOTTINGHAM, Jan. 24. While condemning the votes cast in the house of 'commons ou some occasions by George N. Barnes and other members of the Labor party, the labor conference confer-ence today! by a large majority, shelved a resolution demandiug the withdrawal of the Labor members from the cabinet. cabi-net. Arthur Henderson, former member of the war cabinet, appealed to the conference con-ference not to adopt the resolution. He said it would break up the government and delay peace. Personally he would never again belong to the government, he asserted, unless theVLabor party was predominant. The attacks on the labor members of the cabinet came largely from the fringes of the party, and were in many cases so fiery and anarchistic as to earn hisses from even such an extremely extreme-ly tolerant, audience as this. The main body of the, delegates stood firmly behind be-hind Mr. Henderson in his plea. "For," he. said, "present peace is the supreme issue, and we must not allow al-low its consummation to be interfered with or clouded by retracting the Labor La-bor party's vote of the. past two years in favor of the continuation of the coalition." The speeches against the ministers included one from a Manchester delegate, dele-gate, who urged everybody in the country coun-try to lav down their tools, as a protest pro-test against the failure of the British government to recognize the Russian democracy. A Scottish delegate called the Labor members of the cabinet traitors, and demanded that the British government recognize the German democracy, as well as the Russian. This delegate was "booed" into his seat. Secretary Bromley of the locomotive locomo-tive engineers followed with the remark: re-mark: "There is today a real and imminent danger of a groat popular insurrection in this country. It will burst out if we shuffle along with this unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory coalition government any longer." Mr. Henderson brought the meeting back to earth in a convincing speech, in which he said: "If these were normal times there would be no differences of opinion as tn the nndesirnbilit.v nf assne.ia.ti no' with the capitalistic parties, but they are not normal times, and the party has decided that on the whole the advantages ad-vantages therefrom have outweighed the disadvantages. "Let the present government go on, and let us push them as hard as we can toward peace." A French delegate. Pierre Renaudel, leader of the majority Socialists, announced an-nounced that it had been arranged for the Labor and Socialist parties of various va-rious countries to hold a conferonce February 17, with the aim of promoting a general agreement on the lines of 'British labor's war aims. An endeavor was being made to secure concurrence of the labor movement in the United states, he asserted. When a complete arrangement was thus arranged, ho added, add-ed, the working class organizations of the belligerent countries would be invited in-vited to share in the united action to establish a durable peace, ratifying the defeat of imperialism throughout the world. |