BRITISH LABOUR AND THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE

ATTITUDE OF THE MINERS.

The week is a momentous one for the labour movement in this country. On Friday will to held in London a National Conference of the Labour party, to decide whether or not delegates shall be sent to meet the representatives of Allied and enemy countries at the Stockholm Conference. Probably there has been no question in the history of the party on which opinion was so sharply divided, and important preliminary meetings have been necessary in order to arrive at some decisions as to the course to be adopted by representative bodies which will attend Friday’s gathering.

According to our Labour Correspondent, the executive of the Miners’ Federation will hear Mr. Henderson’s personal explanation before deciding how its 600,000 votes shall be cast. An invitation to appoint delegates for Stockholm was considered yesterday by the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, and the invitation will be accepted in the event of Friday’s conference deciding that British Labour shall be represented.

To-morrow the Labour party executive will meet, while the case against the Stockholm Conference will be publicly presented by men well known in the Labour movement at the British Workers’ League demonstration at night.