LABOUR CONFERENCE.
SIX-HOUR DAY FOR UNDERGROUND . . , WORKERS." - By TclcEraph-Presa Assoclatlon-Oopyrtßht. Sydney, February 7.. ' The Labour Conference carried a\ num-. ber.of industrial motions, including one in favour of d six hours'day for underr ground workers (this as'an addition to the State platform) and one for the abolition; of night w6rk for females. MR. HOLMAN AND THE- WORKERS* UNION. . . " *• . Sydrioy, February 8. Mr. Griffith, Stato Minister for Works, and a delegate to tho Labour Conference, referring ■to the - Australian Workers' Union rebuke of Mr. / Holman (State Attorney-Genefal), for his "traitorous attitudp. in his 5 latest attempt to -trick tho P.L.L. Conference into.opposing tho Federal Referendum," declared that the positibn was not ; so acute as outsiders were likely to imagine;; v .-"-'"■■
• LABOUR'S GREAT'AIM. . Tho "Sydney Morning: Herald" of February 4 states:—Sir. after pro; mising the Labour Conference on Thursday night that there would be no further opposition from either him or hi 9 colleagues to. tho referendum proposals, gavo jiotico of ft' Sweeping motion. Not being a delegate at in tho ordinary sense of the word, tbo State Attorney-General hod no locus standi to give such notice; but, he having mado his peaco with delegates wero graciously ■ inclined, aiid by consent 'Mr. Holman handed in'.the following, among two'other notices motion: — "That the Interstate Labour Conference immediately take into considcrat'on the remoulding of the whole of • tho Federal Constitution, with a view to the abolition of tho Senate and . : the High: Court." ) It was thought that Mr. Holman!s idea in moving this was that .tho referendum proposals alone: would' only . make tho position of alftirs ns'unsatisfactory .as the Labour narty regard ,them- to-day; and iii his view tho only war to secure a complete realisation of Labour's objectives is to have a uni-cameral federal Legislature, with no High Court, to interpret the. Constitution under' which it works. ■■■:'
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1047, 9 February 1911, Page 5
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