LABOUR FEDERATION
ADDBESS BY HON. W. M. HUGHES.
SYDNEY, May 26. Tho Hon. W. M. Hughes, in opening' the Labour Federation Conference, urged tho need for the adoption of modern industrial methods. In these days of gigantic aggregations of capital, it was not only futile, but suicidal", to adopt the looso formation which had served unionism well enough in days gone past. Modern industrial warfare was as much a matter of scientific application as warfare between. nations. There mus' be discipline under rigid control, and directed to one end. The Federation was, an organisation which sought to supplement existing organisation** and, by tho establishment of efficient machinery, gather" together tho industrial forces of the Comment wealth.
Mr Hughes added that, by some, the Federation's constitution was doubtless regarded as revolutionary, but in effect it was not so, for events had recently moved with such rapidity that the -tcp was natural and inevitable.
(Received May 26th, midnight.)
SYDNEY,. May 2tt.
A Federation of Trade Unions was definitely formed, with a Provisional Council. 1 ' ' , r . ■ ■
Mr Hughes *aid ifc was proposed to present « united front to tho .capitalists by means of the power of concerted and wcll-considcrod action. \ .
Numbers of unionists are dubious as to tho bona fides of. tho moving spirits of tho Federation.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 9
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