Foreign News: Sightless Samsons

Twelve hundred delegates—more than ever before—swarmed last week to Margate for the 26th annual British Labor Party Conference.

All question of British Labor's "going Red" seemed once more definitely remote as the conference refused to debate affiliation with the British Communist Party by a "card vote" of 2,706,000 to 349,000.

Though the extremist minority was loud and active, a majority of the delegates received in gloomy silence an address on the present British labor situation by Robert Williams, Vice Chairman of the Labor Party, onetime longshoreman:

"As to the coal miners and their heroic...

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