Foreign News: Unionists for Peace

Object of the Third (Communist) International is the violent World Revolution of the World Proletariat which finds its best chances of success in the upheavals of another world war. Object of the Second (Socialist) International is Peace. Fittingly, its headquarters are in Belgium, its chairman today is venerable Emile Vandervelde, an elder statesman once Premier and Foreign Minister.

Last week M. Vandervelde maintained constant contact with Sir Walter Citrine, the recently knighted British Labor leader who heads the International Federation of Trade Unions. Except in Germany, Russia and Italy — countries in which...

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