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Show 1100 Delegates Hail Russian Revolution By Associated Press. LEEDS. ' June 4. Eleven hundred delegates, 10 per ctnt of whom were women, assembled here yesterday to hall the Russian revolution. They represented rep-resented the extreme pacifist and Socialist So-cialist organlzatlona. Including the Independent In-dependent Labor party. Robert Smlllle, the miners" leader, who presided, said It waa evident that there would be no knockout blow, and It was the wlah of the convention to concentrate the attention of the people on peace by negotiation. The proceedlnga were rather lively at times, but eventually resolutions were adopted proclaiming sympathy with the work directed to the accomplishment accom-plishment of peace without annexations or Indemnities, and demanding that the British government support that formula for-mula In harmony with the Russian government. Other resolutions were adopted favoring fa-voring freedom of the press and speech and calling for the estsbtlsh-ment estsbtlsh-ment In England of a. workmen's and soldiers' group on the Russian model to work for a, people's peace. |