LABOUR'S DEMANDS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 480, 13 April 1909, Page 5

LABOUR'S DEMANDS.

EASTER MEETINGS. PARLIAMENTARY CO-OPERATION. I.L.P. DECISION. (DYTELEGItArU-I'ItESS ASSOCIATION-— COrVHIGIIT.) LcnJon, April 11. The seventeenth annual.conference of tho Independent Labour Party in being held in Edinburgh. Mr. liamsay Jlacdonald, M.P. for Leicester, presides. A resolution wns moved urging the party's severance from the Labour Representation Committee of tho Parliamentary Labour party, on the 'ground that the latter havo not approved of all tho Independent Labour party's candidates at recent by-olcctions. The resolution was rejected almost unanimously. ' • NO CO-OPERATION, NO PAY. (Rec. April 13, 0.20 a.m.) London, April 12. By 332 votes to 64, tho Conference passed a resolution—directed against Mr. Grayson —that no salary, bo paid to any member of the House of- Commons who does not sign the constitution of the Independent Labour party. [According to the agenda paper of the Conference, (here were no fewer than nine re ilutions having reference lo Mr. V. Grayson, LabourSocialist M.P for Colne Valley, several proposing that hia salary be stopped unless no pledges himself to work in harmony with the Labour party in Parliament.] STATE INDUSTRIES. ■WAGES TO EQUAL THE TOTAL NET PEOCEEDS. ' Melbourne, April 12. The Political Labour Council has declined to replace its objective by that adopted by the Federal Labour party at the last Brisbane Conference. ' The Council decided to add .1 new plank to tne State platform, providing for tho establishment, of State mines, farms, factories, and shops, to give employment to those requiring it under State supervision, the employees,_ as far as possible, to be consumers of their produce, and to receive wages equivalent to the net total produced.