THE LABOUR PARTY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 6

THE LABOUR PARTY

.ACTION' IN'WELLINGTON. '/.;/-;, .- . The' most important item figuring ion the' order paper, of;'the; Trades ''Council at its./meeting.- to-morrow/' evening; will be the /proposal to 'establish- a :; - : Wellirig-' ton '. branch •of '■' the' ■ New' Zealand ■ Labour; party-v' It \will\,be: remembered''that, ■at the- conference 'of 3 Trades" • s Councils" heldat/ Auckland/ in '.'July,' '■'. a .platform; •"■was adopted which must, mandatorily■'■ form the basis of;'. any', branch ] par ties' formed under "the.'auspices'.of the New; Zealand Labour., party;: In. addition; to; the platform; ,a, set of general recommendations. was framed ;by' the conference. :."it; isyinr-'t'e'nid€d-'.tHat''Jbo^h-'-'pktfor'm:vaiid' rrecoinmehdatioris'shall »be strictly adhered;to until a' conference -of all the.-'.parties then in existence': meets,\ as' .'arranged bythe- Auckland-.conference, next,-Easter-time in .Ckristohureh; r, At;.; the..;. Christ-■ church- conference;tho. whole, of. the, rules,. constitution,., and : objective of - the. .'party ,| will/ be -overhauled, ~'a.nd,. jif ,»,necessary, amended; Par the rest, it was the', objector/ the/confererice'to, allow a good'deal-of. ■local- autonomy.' Already there . axe , m existence branches .of,:'the,. Labour;• party at. ,Cliristchurch, : Aiickkuid,, Mastertou, arid Gisbbrne.'-'. Except in: the ,case;.bf. Gis:, ■borne,--all these- were formedijprior;,,to the ; meeting of;;the,: conference ;at.;,.Auckland:', .-. ■ The.-.Gisborne • branch.,,has'... been 'formed. as; a, ; ,result;-of :'that-"conference,• and ■ its-' recommendations,;'.;; This .Masterton branoh some/time ago'approved "the /platform,:although it hao.'notjautually ac.cepted:the,,.general'.'...constitution,';'; The; executive;head of ,the. party; is',' at '• present; located in;Dunedin.' "Apermanent' executive centre will b'e arranged "at the conference to' ■■ held, at, Easter-time..: At the /.Wellington .'meeting /to-morrow, evening," it. will proposed that the, ricoessaTy .resolutions, 'securing 1 /the;..;establishment of 'a -; branch, be; passed, - and officers', and;,a ..committee, "appointed pro tern.., to draft a.set;of rules; and arrange for'.further, meetings. „:;'..■.; ..;