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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920.

NEW COMMUNIST PARTY,

LENİN'S GREETINGS TO LONDON CONFERENCE

“ANTIPATHY ΤΟ WORK."

GEN. ROOTH ON LABOUR *PROBLEM.

General Booth arrived at Cannon-street Hotel, E., Withs A writer in a Home paper' says-Where the Gsemana got recently the scene of a national Liverpool recently from New "Australia, New the glycerine for the manufacture convention to establish a Com-York, on his return from a tour of high explosives was one of the munist Party for Great Britain, embracing

Discussing the situation in mysteries of the last two years of Delegates were invited from all Zealand, Canada, and Ceylon. the war. It was a puzzle no organisations, local communist merely to the British Govern-groups, and independent socialist | Australia and New Zealand with which accept "the a representative of The Times. ment, one of whose members societies

made the belated announcement fundamental bases of communist General Booth said I feel there that glycerine could be derived unity: (a) The dictatorship of the must be some scheme for a con- from lard, but to English chemists working class: (b) The Sorist ference or consultation between country That who were aware that fats, of system; (e) The Third Interna- the leading men of those countries

The organisations par. and the old which lard was one were the tional." sole substances from which gly- ticipating were pledge to abide is, if you want to hold them. The The first cerine hitherto had been derived, by the decisions of the convention war has drawn them to us in a

and to remarkable manner.

in maintaining this We had closed down by the on points of tactics, blockade the entrance to Gerd merge their organisations in the necessity

spirit of unity is some method of many of far from the outside, new Communist Party.

keeping them better informed. The delegates Wer mainly and during 1917 and 1918, it did.

Prontinent men out there, includ- not seem possible that she could from the British Socialist Party

ing men of Cabinetrank, have said: have fats enough to keep her and various left-wing Socialist to me that they feel isolated. "We population alive and furnish the bodies. Prior to the convention

read in the newspapers, they say, Committee Provisional

"what we really ought to know ycerine for explosives as well, the Somehow she was mataging received a wireless message before the newspapers get it."

Whether or not it is possible to Yet theoretically. she ought not Lenin sending greetings, to the to have been able to do so, and a convention, and condemning the have some sort of federal scheme! circumstance which supported the refusal of Miss Sylvia Fankhursti

Generall with an Imperial theory, though it was contradicted and her followers to collaborate for the Empire continued the time hy the facts, was that she appear-in the foundation of the new Chamber of some kind. ed to have no soap. Soup is also parts.

alone will show. But I do think male oat of fats. In shart, she

Mr. Arthur Marmanus, the the other idea is desirable and evadently was short of fats: vetehairman said that it was a practicable. I am quite aware

he had the glycerine.

somewhat unfortunate experience j that some of my friends will say. The contradiction could only that it had taken, three years of What about the extreme parties te reconciled on the supposition revolution in Russia and win those countries? True, there is this! an extrema section of the Labour that she was getting glycerine years of deliberation in

way. me

ut of something other than fat. country to bring the conference Party, and an extreme section of That is exactly what she was into being. Advaratite the need anti-British sentiment, in which. the Roman doing, and the story of how she of the social revolution be said in

should be Catholic Church has got itself! it is one of the curiosities of that even if there

These sections are so research. The story begins with bloodshed they should remember! mixed up. Pasteur. Many years ago the the lesson of history. It was never nuly that they give the impres- great Frenchman's work explored the revolut on or the revolution- jean of being much more in-

forduential than they really 151- Tep netice the splitting up at the cellsjery that'

are.

It is to be hoped

of substances by enzymes, or, bloodshe L. It was intanable dur Bet 1 am quite convinced that 21 ye a simpler want for thelt, the action of the easter revolone way to meet them is by ftee!

the hothonary win wou.j stat in the and open conference. I do not purpose of this argument.

There want to criticize the Australian) power of yeasts. By geasts the way of the ro dutlan felis of sugar can be split up into was no subterfuge on dins foul people. They are wonderful: their alcohol and carbonis act gastrick which the countenansal | Gorj faults are only the tanits of All these are syruple substancès, uti naries were rat prepared to their quables. vet nothing except these powerful resort to rather than allow Russiaj that they get rid of the drink evil. reast enzymes will da the ean-to stand free and open to all the! have been greatly impressed fjuring trick. Long after Pasteur's world and justify cɔmmunism as the improvement in Canada!

the result of prohibition. classic researches, bath while bela constructive force.

Referring to labour questions was living and after he was dead.) Mr. Thomas Bell, of the Com chemists sought to find the kerunis: Unity Group. Glasgow. General Booth said: find in of the mechanism whereby this I moved a resolution repudiating nearly every country there is

aemerging a kind of antipathy tol wanderlul

the reformis: view* transformation effected. In connection with the social revolution could be achieved work. This is quite a different transformation there are two side be Parliamentary action, and M. thing from the ambition to be) products. Besides the alcohol Hober: William, supporting, said well paid for what work you and the carbonic sead into which it would be a good thing to have. the sugar is split, there was a few men in Parliament who, danger. especially for the next

are going e always a small quantity of aretic every time a Cabinet Minister zeneration. if we altebde, andi. <till more master spoke, would er "You're a liar!to cultivate the idea that there is You're a liar! You're a liar!" something inirical to human life minute quantity |[1018, a

and happiness in work pr Holy Crow. The quantity of gly

They came to me in Australia Heerine was proportionately very

and asked me to use my influence) small

were skatt af sumar for domestic about five-day week agitation, If it had not been for which, when I examined it. f Purpos this chemical action, the fruitfound

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Tar aldehydes, we may sag infof an inquity pursued solely for days. I told them there is an old loving, are the s ibstances which the sake of knowledge he a few Book which says: "Six days!

en flavour to the various formsli-slated chemists, Germany would shalt thou labour."

of drinkable alorstoli,en that have had to go out of the

It is a frightful thing, that a

from an industrial paint od view: war after the trst two years of man should have a constitutionalį there might have bees, though.

vestigate

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objection to labour. The backbone of the Labour world in this there was not. sothe profit in following them up. But that

country consists of men of some and mozal was to the research ciemeist

The work of Faraday, out of religious training Lincentive. He continued to in whose experiments with bits of integrity. Let them speak out on the aretic aldehyde. | copper wire and magnets, barelt ese lines. I also think the great jwhich might be exparted to va? grown the drama of to-day and body of the rank and file of the according to the amount of oxida all our methods of clectric foramo Labour Party in this country, ifj tion which the alcohol under on and the transmission of foot religious in oursanse, consists went; and also to probe that surelectric power, has often been largely of men and women of prising appearance of giscering. quoted as an example of the moral character who have been because these phenomena mich: inestimable value of what seemed brought up under the influence of afford some explanation of the at the time mere piece of religious teachers and who look *ay the transformation was cientific curiosity. The example with contempt on this Bolshevist worked. 1: Was. you might that has just been given of the cackle. I want them to come out in ay. a purely academic problem. supply of the sinews of war from the open, and not leave the more on which the governing bodies a lump of sugar. is an example mentin the handsofthe extremists. even of research institutions from biochemistry that can be set. were inclined to frown because it be the side of it. But that is not appeared to lead to nothing pro- the sole moral. A great deal is fitable. Dr. Harden in London being said at the present moment and at the Lister Institute as a about the importance of the

of dres 25 matter of record) bad done a good manufacture deal with the problem up to the key industry and as providing outbreak of war, and his re-the implements by which plough-|

FIRST CONFERENCE OF ITS KIND. eatches were well known to the shares can be beaten into swords But the German chemists. Among the when necessity arises.

Twenty-one bluejackets had a ramifications of his researches it point which nearly all the pro- became known that of the trantagonists of this need dwell upon heart to heart talk with Earl formations into alcohol and cars that what is wanted most is the Beatty and the First Lord at the bonic acid, acetic aldehyde and large equipment. So also, when Admiralty recently, on grievances glycerine were effected in the the writer went for The Oberre of the lower-deck ratings of the

to axo Jeara presence of certain sulphides, the three

see the Navy. British Dyers at The men represented the Inter- amount of acetic aldehyde left factories of after the conversion was much Huddersfeld. be was impressed Port Welfare Conference at increased. The fragmentary quan-by the provision for the large Devonport, which has been con- tity of glycerine increased with it. scale manufacture of inter sidering the decisions of the mediates which are necessary Admiralty on the submissions WHY GERMANT WAS SHORT OF

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