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LABOUR PARTY AND
DISARMAMENT, '
A DEFEATED MOTION.
CAPITAL LEVY AIMS,
HOHENZOLLERN" PROPERTY PRUSSIAN SOCIALISTS' DEMAND.
BERLIN, June 13th.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
Amid general surprise a motion by the Social Democrats in the Frussian Diet calling for reports and papers relative to the state At the Labour Party Conference at the of the settlement with the Hohensalierus Queen's Hall, London, under the presidi was adopted by 140 to 138 votes. it hail the eney of Mr. Sidney Webb, on June 29th
support of the traile union members of the r The Executive Committee's resolution Centre Party. During the debate the on finance was moved by Mr. C G. Minister of Finance, Dr. von Righter, had Ammon, M.P. It protested against the declared the motion to be quite academic, policy of the Government in maintaining there could be no majority for it in the the annual expenditure on armaments at Diet.
to the
so colossal a figure as 120 millions, in fecit- The demand of the Socialists, which must ing to pay off a large proportion of the now be conceled, was for a renorandum, war debt, in cutting down urgently re-giving exact particulars of the inquiry insti quired social Services, and in continuing tated by the Prussian Finance Ministry into excessive taxes on the food of the people the ownership rights in the Hohenzollern It dechred for a capital levy, the taxa Property, and especially in regarel
in tion of land values, and veonomies, not origins, value and yield of the property,
dispute. Particulars are further required of ably on, armaments, in order to make it the value of property and amount of pay- possible to abolish food taxes, to lightenment alrently made over to the Hohenzollern the burden of the income-tax, to abolish family, and the costs borne by this State in the entertainment tax and "the corpora- the administration of the property.
on profits tax, and to provide money) for social expenditure. In default of a capital levy the Parliamentary Party was asked to press for the abolition of the taxes on food before any other relief in
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The discussion, while conducted on a not very edifying plane, showed the deter mination of the Democrats and Socialista to prevent the members of the House of Hohenzollern from receiving any bat their indisputably private property, and abova All to prevent the Hohenzollern trust pro- perty that went with the Crown from passing into the private ownership of the The dispute ex Kaiser and bis family. with the Hohenzollerns has now been in progress for four and a half years, and shows no sign of being settled
Mr. Ammo said the Hymn of fate was still being sung, but to the tune of the Marsrilinise and fiule, Brith
While national policy continued on these lines there could be no hope for national solvency or for the abolition of war. The capital levy was an integral part of Labour finance. He understood Attempts have repenterlly been made matter before board that the experts who had been carefully to bring the
which would have considering the question were of opinion of arbitration,
tu" the Demo- that even to-day a gradanted capital been acceptable both
and
the Prussian Cabinet, but levy, As proposed by the Labour Party,
on the last acunsion their
project was blocked would produce a um exceeding three by the action of Herr Hermann Miller in the thousand millions.
Heichstag. The Democrats insist that the dispute is not a legal, but a political ###• tion, and are opposed to its going through the ordinary legal channels because, they fear that owing to the composition of the Hench, which in Prussia is almost wholly mour chist, there might not be a strictly legal finding.
Mr. Priestley (Manchester and Salford Labour Party) said the rich were richer and had four thousand million more "quids" than they had before the war. This increase of wealth represented the exploitation of the country in its hour of uanger. They must stick to the capital lery and make those people disgorge."
The resolutio was adopted.
"NEW RACE OF ARMAMENTS." Mr. G. Lansbury, M. P. moved:--
That the proposed increase of the British Air Force in competition with France is a preface to a new era of war, and the Labour Party calls upon the Parliamentary Labour Party to offer every resistance, dcclares that it is a crime against humanity to promote this new ence of armamente within five years. of the end of the fast war, which the peoples of the world hoped was the begin ning of an era of peace and demands that an international conference should at once be called by Great Britain for the purpose of eventually abolishing by international agreement all air meats."
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A further stage has been renched in the set- tlement between the ox-Duke of Brunswick and the Federal State of Brunswick. The Courts of Brunswick have declaced against. the State and in favour of the house of Brunswick-Lüneburg in
in a claim of the latter for an inventory of all the furniture ant movable objects removed since November 18th, 1918, from the Brunswick Chateau, the duca stables, and the ducal chater of Blankenburg in the Harz Slountains. The Federal State has been ordered under severe penalties to take measures that no more objects are removed. The Court reserved its decision whether the State should be ordered... to recover objects removed since November, 18th, 1918---Time
DISARMAMENT POLILY. "
Mr. F. Rose, M.P., seconding, said the The Independent Labour Party had expansion of the Air Force was the out- placed on the agenda. two resolutions come of a capitalist stunt." The relating to disarmament. The first asked: superiority of the French Air Force was the Parliamentary Party to call upon the fiction.
Government to summon an international conferene and, ashmit a definite pro- post to the ether nations for immedinta universal disarmament by inainal ngrves. ment. This resolution was adopted.
Mr. Ben. Turner, 31.P., said it was for the working classes to say that at no time and under do circumstances should there be another war.
The resolution was carried,
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The second resolution, expressing the opinion that it should be the policy of the Labour Party in Parliament 10 vote against all Military and Naval Estimates, was strongly opposed and finally defeat--
Mr. J. Jones, MP said it was very ice to talk sentimentally, but the things they would like to da were the things
Bapdoodle" let them put pressure en the British Government to ca au inter- national conterence.
REPARATIONS, HERE, AND RUSSIA. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, MP, moved a long resolution ou-foreign policy. It welcomed the formation of the new Labour International: protested against ed. "the occupation of the Rube by the French The Chairman invited the delegates to
and Helginn forers as an act of aggres sign anal of waz: and called for the sub-consider whether the resolution was net conflict with the policy of suniversal mission of the differences to an impartia distrament by agreement. (So.) The tribunal. The recent offer of the German Govermaent shoul, it said, be taken as carrying of the resolution would put the Partianicatury Party in an impossible a basis for negotiation. In regard to position, and it would have to exercise reparations, the resoluten declared that
its"discretion.. it was contrary to the pre-Armistice arrangement Laat military Pensions should be included in the reparations hill and that the claims would be abandoned; that Great Britain should adopt they could nes do. Instead of talking generous attitude in the tatter of thu inter-Allied debts as part of a general settlement of the reparations problem; and that the whole of the Allied armies! Air J. T. Brownlie said the uption ahould be withdrawn immediately from of the "resclation would not only embar- German territory and a world conference rass the Labour Party Parliament be called to revise the peace treaties. The but all tg candidates at the next election, resolution also referred to Russia, calling Major Attler, M.P., speaking in sup for a meeting between representatives of part of the resolution, said it should he the British and Russin Foreign Offices to considered as part of a comprehensive settle outstanding points of dispute and posey. They could not trust a capitalist for the full vergnition of the Russian Government with armament, and should. Government.
Mr. Macdonald said in regard to the sadly vote against its military esti mates. The first duty of a Labour Get- Ruhr that the suggestion of the Inburriment would be the calling of a worki Party was the calling of a conference to conference for peace. He realised that get the public opinion of the people of Jer the liquidation of the situation they the different countries as represented in would require to have some small army parliament. That, they believed, would to carry on ("Oh, oh")-yes, he was have put them on the high road to a practical, and he knew perfectly well that! Rettlement. They regarded the first they culd not dracbilize in a werk. But German Note as good enough for the there was a difference betwege a tem- opening of gotutions. The second parary Ariangement while they were Nate was certainly good enough. This cagaged, in the task of abolishing arma conferner carried resolutions against mäntä and in voting for the armaments) war, but they shouți not live in a fool's of Governinents with a policy they op paradise. Unless there was a Govern posed. inent in power which would derisa policy
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Mr. Henderson said that if the rescla-
to stifle armantents, the harvest of armation was more than a gesture, it was
ents wenld be renped. The policy of pence was to keep the peoples of the absurd and futile, Until there was inter- different countries in sympathetic touch national agreement upon a different. with each other. He would like the can policy even that conference could not and ferencs to send to the working-class dare nct ignore questions of defence. The ovement in France a hearty declaration logical feet of the resolution would b of fraternity and friendship, and up that at the next election, they inust tel pead to join with the British movement the country they would almolish the Navy, in suppressing militarism and imper. Must the party manifestors declare that inlisin. Until militarism and imper- they would never vote for Estimates, hew ever essential, for purposes of defence! ialism were suppressed Europe could, not Reference had been made to France. 1 enjoy fence and the luxury of disarnas miat. In regard to Russia they desired France continued in her present frame of
mind, could they overlook the require ths complete diplomatic recognition of the ments of defence Were they to tell the Russing' Government.
Mr. Rhys Davies, M.P., who seconded world that if Labour were returned to power in two years time they would the raton, said he hoped, if the war harles were sided once again, the crap the Army. the Navy, and the Air Labour puply would, stand by its resolu Force regardless of the international tips.
position of the play It was not practical M. E D-Marel, M.P., eaid' that in polities. Europe to-day there was almost a replica'
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of the corelitians which brought about-ther Great War.
The resolution was adopted. (Continued at foot of next Oclumn.)
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