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NOME, ALASKA THURSDAY, JUNE, 13, 1918.
ENGLISH LABOR AGAINST
ECONOMIC WAR ON FOE,
SAYS ARTHOR HENDERSON
“THE MAN OF CABINET RANK WHO CUTS MOST ICE IS MR.
HENDERSON. HE SPEAKS ANI) ACTS WITH VIGOR, HAS A
POLICY, PURSUES IT, ADVANCES IT. SAYS NOTHING INTANGI
BLE OR EXTREME, AND YET IS GRADUALLY LEADING THE NA
TION BACK TO THOSE CONCEPTIONS WHICH BURNED CLEAR IN
MEN’S MINDS WHEN THE WAR BEGAN. AND THIS SUPERFI
CIAL MOVEMENT SPRINGS FORM THE WORKING THE UNSEEN
SPIRITUAL FORCES IN OUR LIFE.”—THE LONDON NATION, DEC.
15. 1»17.
BY ARTHUR HENDERSON |(
(From the London National Weekly) : I
The speeches and declarations of j 1
our leading statesmen, delivered in | (
the early months of the war, provide 1
ample evidence to show that this, f
country became an active participant 1
in the gigantic world-struggle from t
only the highest and best motives i
Speaking In the House of Commons <
as prime minister, within a week <
of the declaration of, Mr. Asquith ■
said: t
“If I am asked what we are
fighting for, I reply in two sen
tences. In the first place to fulfill
a solemn international obligation.
Secondly, we are fighting to vindi
cate thin principle that small nation
alities are not to be crushed in
defense of international good faith.
I do not believe any nation ever
entered into a gr.at controversy with
a clearer conscience and stronger
conviction that it is fighting not
for aggression, not for the mainten
ance even of it's own st lfish inter
ests. but that it is figtiling in defense
of principles the maintenance of
which is vital to the civilization
of the World."
Such, then, in broad outlines,
were the principal objects for which
the British people unsheath,>d the
sword. We assumed the role of j p
champion of the sanctity of interna-J1
tional treaties and of rights of f
small nations, and nought to im-;a
press upon the world that we desire d ; u
neithor territorial expansion nor ar- s
tificial economic advantag ■. This
high conception of national duty
inspired the entire population of
the British empire and its depen
dencies, and produced an unparal
leled display of unity and determin
ation.
GERMAN DEFEAT NECESSARY
British labor is convinced, as it
has been from the beginning, that
a victorly for German imperialism
would be the defeat and the de
struction of democracy and liberty
tn Europe. In the peace settle
ment, practical provisions must be
made against any future recurrence
of the present terrible world-calam
ity by the elimination of aggressive
militarism from the entire world,
nnd, what is equally important, by
tho removal of all the old-star.ding
menaces and the. prevention of new
provocations to war—political or
economic. This desirable end can
best be secured by the establishment
of a federation of free democracies,
which is the surest guarantee of a
permanent peace. The workers feel
that if the present world-conflict i3
a war to end war, its settlement
must be based upon the will of all
the peoples, and such as will permit
tho nations, large and small, to
dwtoll together In amity and con
cord.
If the suggested federation of na
tions is to have any prospect of
real and permanent success, and
if tho present struggle is to be look
ed hack upon as the war which
ended all war, everything must be
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conomic camps after the war. It
nay safely be said that the latter
vontua'.ly would be fatal to all our
lopes of a permanent peace, and a
;reat betrayal of a righteous and
loble cause. Instead of securing
he abolition of war, it would pre
>etuat? international suspicion, jeal
ousy, and greed, the evil products
f economic antagonisms which eon
ributed so largely to the general
auses of the present European con
lict, and would, within a few short
ears, lead inevitable to a bitter
nd devastating repetition of all the
asses, sorrow, suffering, and sacri
ioe mankind is now enduring.
NOT LABOR'S POLICY
It cannot be too clearly under-1
tood that this is not the policy
1 organized labor in this country,
or of the Socialists of France, Kus
ia. Belgium, or Italy, all of whom
ave declared emphatically that
hey do not pursue the political and
conomic crushing of Germany,
'hesj representatives of the work
.g classes and those in close as
ociation with them know full well
tat all attempts at economic ag
ression, whether by protective tar
fs or capitalistic trusts or manop
ties, lead inevitably to the ex
loltation of the working classes,
hey cannot regard with any other
i ling than one of deep hostility
ay proposal or policy which seeks
ttorly to destroy the economic po
tion of the German people after
l" war; and if this is to be the in
ntion or possible effect of the
aris conference resolutions, then
would be well to understand at
ice that organized labor in this
luntry is determined not to allow
le normal economic relations of na
ons to be founded on a policy of
>preosion and ostracism, producing,
i it must, hostility and hatred
ter the war.
British labor is out to strangle
id stamp under foot katserism and
ilitariism, and to substitute for
«m good will and fraternity; it
not a war with the peoples of
•rmany and Austria, except in so
r as they support the war polity
their autocratic rulers. That
appreciates the danger of an
onomic struggle was clearly Bl
eated in a decision reached at the
cent trade union congress by
339,000 votes to 278,000, or a
ajority of more than eight to
le. The resolution was as follows:
FREE TRADE RESOLUTION.
“That the economic conditions
created by the war have In no
way altered the fundamental
truth that free trade among
the nations is the broadest and
surest foundation for world
prosperity and international
peace in the future, and that
any departure from the prin
ciple of free trade would be
detrimental to the prosperity of
the nation as a whole.”
This overwhelming majority shows
■arly that British industrial de
i mocracy, as represented by Con
| gross, will decline to subscribe to <
' policy prejudicial to the eeonomii
I interests of our bwn working folk
| and onia that is calculated to pre
1 vent the definite and essential re
j conciliation of free democracies
j Therefore the proposal to crippl,
j Germany financially, and to rendei
J her impotent commercially by £
| ruthless trade war may be expectet
I to receive the determined opposi
j tion of the British labor and Soc
ialist movement. Once the Britist
people as a whole realize the true
inwardness of such a policy, hov
far it is out of accord with theii
own cherished aims in this war as
| declared by Mr. Asquith in his
j Guildhall, Dublin, and Cardifl
I speeches, and opposed to the spiral
qf international cooperation and
good will, they will reject it as one
inspired by a spirit of revenge, and
consequently, a fatal impediment tc
the attainment and maintenance ol
| world peace.
It is clear, therefore, that the
Paris resolutions, so far as thej
are intended to form the basis o1
a policy of organized systematic
and commercial and economic boy
cotting which aims at the destrruc
tion of German commerce, must be
strenuously opposed. They would
provide a new standing menace tc
a healthy internationalism and tc
the future peace of the world.
NO COMMERCIAL DOMINATION
WANTED
If this policy of economic re
1 pression is to be persisted in, it may
prove to be the rock on which the
unity of the nation will be broken
for it must be remembered that nc
more potent argument has beer
used by the leaders of all the po
litical parties throughout this great
conflict In order to secure and re
tain the active support and coopera
tion of the workers than that the
war must be fought to a successful
conclusion, so as to safeguard the
future for the people, and, espec
ially, for their children. In re
sponding, as they did, with such
striking unanimity and courage, they
were influenced by high ideals and
great principles, but not by any
desire for economic and commer
cial domination.
If we have among us a section
of politicians who regard the Ger
man people as rightful spoils, to be
economically exploited and oppress
ed after the conclusion of hostilities,
let them wiaso talking of a fight to
a finish, for no mere military vic
tory can ever be the final stage
of the struggle; it would only mean
a transfer of the venus, with a
change of weapons from the mili
tary to the economic. But British
labor, and especially tho organized
section will refuse to regard the
■ Gorman and Austrian Socialists in i
. that light.
: WORLD DEMACRACY LABOR’S J
HOPE
The fundamental purpose of Brit
• ish labor in continuing its support
. of the war is the hope that it may
: influence the development of
■ world democracy. In order that
this may be accomplished it is de
termined that the peace terms shall
be just and honorable and such as
shall erect no barriers that will
prevent the realization of these high
' ideals. A spirit of revenge, if in
troduced, would vitiate the findings
of any peace conference and make
a democratic peace an impossibility.
Moreover, British labor appreciates
the difficulty that has already arisen
by this promulgation of the suggest
ed policy of commercial repression
and its effects in prolonging the war.
France, Russia, and America all
provide evidence that the objects
and aims of England are suspected,
consequently we have presistent de
mands for a restatement of our
position, both politically and eco
nomically.
What is the use of saying to the
German people that if they want
peace they must at once, become
masters in their own house: that
they must destroy the kaiser’s pow
er for evil, and that they must
come into line with the free democ
racies of the world, if we increase
their already serious difficulties
by intimating that when they have
succeeded, they are not to be a free
people, but are to be commercially
and economically isolated? What
is to be thought of a statesmanship
which invites the German ‘people to
’form part of a federation of na
tions for the maintenance of a world
peace and at the same time proclaims
the intention of constructing a feder
ation of allies fer no other object than
the setting up of a commercial boy
cott of Germany? Such a proposal
•under all the terrible experiences of
the war, may appeal to a section of
the people influenced by the woutid
ied feelings of today, without re
gard to the consequence of the mor
row, but when the full effects are
realized they wall be found to be
not only dangerous, but criminal,
and the sooner they are officially
repudiated the better it will be for
the allied cause.
Labor is convinced that a world
peace which is broadly based on
the expressed will of free democracies
cannot be assisted by a temporary
or perpetual economic war. And a
peace which does not properly rec
ognize the natural economic rights
I of all peoples will be neither dem
ocratic nor lasting.
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