Show A feature of the international socialist labor and trade union congress lit in london NN III be the discussion of arbitration tritt ion and war in their relation to workingmen resolutions under consideration sIde ratton condemn ill all war with the exception caption of that waged in defense of the home country against invasion call for a gradual reduction of mill military tary service in european armies by means of nn an international ter convention and call upon fill all governments to adopt a system of arbitration in place of war for the settlement of disputes in another resolution jingoism Is denounced as being uttered in the name of the people by unscrupulous rulers ind and ignorant dupes such stich jingoism is repudiated followed with the statement that the congress of workers holds out tho hand of lore arid and sympathy to the mass es of every land it la Is even proposed to oppose war by strikes by calling on workers in the countries affected to cerise their labor in case of a declaration of war wherever such cessation of work would exercise an influence upon the war this list last Is rm an extreme measure like some proposed in the congress which is a body of radicals and stands for socialism pure and simple nevertheless in its denunciation of war ind and its espousal of arbitration the congress voices what la is coming more mom and more to be the sentiment of t the he workingmen of all countries it Is they who suffer by wars it Is they who must bear the burden imposed by immens standing armies and the costly military systems of europe whenever work ingmen corne come together lu in international Intern adonai convention of whatever sort it Is bul natural that they should protest at being led into war against eneli other when the disputes might better lie be settled by peaceful moans means |