COMPULSORY TRAINING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 503, 10 May 1909, Page 6

COMPULSORY TRAINING.

#"/\§ /MOVEMENT INyOPPbSITiprVS;; | '<-. - 'jßetweeri forty-ani- 1 fifty ,;.../meeting, hakLin the,"rooms 0f,..th0-Wellingtbii ~;.r.branchv6f,:to:;Austaiihsian ;Seainen's Union, ;, night,,for the.'.pnrpose'of• resisting;,vvthe;proposal compulsory -military, .'trainint.-, yyMr.; D.; M'Lareri, 'M.P. ; '•'■:{.; ' -:;.;v ;;.,'.-' : yTho chairman .'said that even if compuLsoryl ■~;-,training..wasa^^.right:.thmg, -which ho.did :noil ;;-'*°S; A-moment: allow, ..the.'country jcould nbfi /at/present.;; It' was incon-: I ~.-, -sistcnt-, of ;the -Opposition .and -other public .f..men<;to,en_dofs6 this'-cry .for:compulsoiy/mili-. :.. .tary.-trainwg,-wlile same timo ■■■• the- -necessity,; for '.economy.'." AH^^": tho'daily-:;,press;df-,;Wellihgton".anaVmany commercial -: wstitutions were' in; favour, of the 'principles ..:..which.te.meeting-was called to'oppose, and' : •.-■' tnb other; side, should; lose-no .time in; making :/Known,,tncir;oppositioii.' ;.'>-/:;-,:/./■: '.;■;■•- v ; ;■;:;>Mr, qp. jJ.: moved:—"That this ;,- : itself intoia',committee to ■:/takojsuch'.steps-as may. bo' deemed necessary ':: :; in,ordqr.,to;combat;the agitation in ;.--of compulsory military 'training." After ■;;Btating-that the', proposals'.'so far made were -': oi ,*p* barest, description, ho said -that ho :.-''Wonldi'bbjprepared -to 'discuss the'■• question :•.. wJiea .those who/owned", tho riand: and w x ere :■ : ".^ oo fought, foreshowed,'by-'consohting." to ,;•:■ submit, to direct-special taxation; that thoy ; 'We -ready ;- v to do their ;part. '-Hd":declared -. .tnat, the'- two ..outatandihg; features ''of v the ', ■-■ gnomes .'brought' down' were ' meanness "and .;:-nnparalleledvaudacity:-' ; : ;:< .' : ;:' : , ' . ' ; -H ''RsHcggiseconded 'Hie a ,: ; Bocialist,.ho.was opposed to any/ form ' of quesroon' ;. 'Bedford, 'isenibr.v 'supported inilitarV /training on the-lmes-of the present voluhtoor -and..training-that,would bo'paid for' :,, A; .visitor/from:'the' country thought that .before '.passing ..motions like that of Mr. ;. (0 should,.niako/provision te do-, ■•'::JW.'.* h oir..homM;;-'.'K;tbo'motiou:w'as'carried' ;.,/lt-would,indicate that tho.,;-meeting ,:,wa« qagainstany land .of ;miKtary. training , ' 'not'-maftor to' :-,bun whothor the local or the foreign capitalist exploited mm.■•:.: /.,..,. ■ . ■:. '.••:■-. - . motion" was r.carncdr and/.a/special committee set .up to .-enlists/the- isympathiea : of'.the - .Trades 7and :'; : {i a W.C'.Council,and:other-bodibs'. An execu- ■ -".J'^W^ members arrange / tora-publK moetrng'and other business'.;