LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 11

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

SWAMPING THE COUNCIL, LIBERAL~I_ia>ER'S CRITICISM. SYDNEY, January 30 Mr Wade, discussing the proposals of the Labour Conference to swamp tho Legislative Council, said: —"The Conforenco docs not seem to realise that this is a dangerous, drastic, and unprecedented method which keenly resorted to in conditions of extreme urgency or public danger. It is scarcely disputed nowadays that swamping is, in the abstract, a reserve method for giving effect to tho people's will, and only to bo applied as a last icsort." socialists as labourites, a proposalTdefeated. (Received January 30th, 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 30. At the Labour Conference, Mr Stuart Robertson moved:—"That members of unions opposing selected Political Labour League candidates, 6uch as Socialist candidates, may bo eligible for selection as Labour candidates by signing tho League pledge." Mr Holman supported the proposition. Ho cherished, he said, a largo amount of sympathy for the Socialists. The Labour movement was largely recruited from the ranks of tho Socialists, and many good men would be lost to them if the seven years' disqualification always obtained. Other speakers opposed the proposal on the grounds that Socialists had no right to preferential treatment. The resolution was lost. It was resolved that an employer .of non-unionists could not bo a Parliamentary Labour candidate The conference gave Mr Holman a rousing farewell preparatory to his departure for New Zealand to-morrow.