ANTI-"CONSCRIPTION" LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 4

ANTI-"CONSCRIPTION" LEAGUE.

SOME PLANS FORTHE FUTURE. Tho Anti-Conscription League and sympathisers therewith bold a meeting at tiodbcr's Cuba Street room last evening, to arrange for tho visit of Mr. \\. i of Sunderland, linglnnd. Mr. W. S. JJcd- > ford presided over an attendance of be- ' tween tw.eiuy rUd thirty member, i According to the statements of the chairman, Mr. Carder is a member of tho Society of Friends, of who is visiting New Zejland for Iho express purpose of speaking about ''conscription. Ho is expected in Wellington from liotoma 011 Thursday next. The branch had been called together to arrange for a reception lo him in connection with addresses which he is expected to give here. A committee was set up to arrange a reception and a public meeting. The chairman, in the course of pome re- ' marks, said that the branch which they ; ind been forming in Wellington of tlw New Zealand Anti-Conscription League i had united with 0110 .that had already been in existence. He said that reports from tho various branches showed that ti,o league was making headway. llio Christcliureh branch was making tlio most progress, and the headquarters of tlio league wore to bo established there until October next, when a conference of «= <v gates was io be held in Wellington to de. eide all future matters. In October, also, a. programme would bo drawn up to fight the flections. They would endeavour .0 have each candidate approve or disapprove of the penal clauses '1 the Dciencc Act. Til the O'jiu'.-c of a genera, co " i)t about tlio altitude r-f the prc-'s them the ehairii'.an I'l'-'t. al t.lO In'i'r. meeting, a resolution ha:; r-vfr. carried 011 a show of ho.nls (in y fw<\\-o povsous, he avowed, Kv: voted to the motion, and yet '.:u> I' l ' l ■ .V"'"''',' 1 " tisn reports hart tlu't • t.lO lmicfcmg was in l«v»wr of the »«« half against it. They were .Vsw insets rro-eii'd in thf r-i:bl:sh(xl ,-..k '> v '" that half tlio milling tad risen pat viol ie son's. , , Speaking later, the cha:n»aii ;tatel that he did not k't-v.-Jjtat Sec-->.;Ws were necessarily aiii'-military. a matter of fact Mr. D'ateiif.'ivl one of their leadei-s, favoured eoiiscript'on. "as tin's because Mr. IJlaiehloxd realised that the time would come when laK-uv wo'dd demand its rights, and when if would b<» brHer to have the' ::o!vo« tranunl and armed and supplied with .arms by (ho Govern men! ? Two speakers onlaired upon tho aitvißnbililv of approaching tiio labour unions to got, t.lie leaders to fake the league's objects up ami assist its progress; nnd tho chairman said this was already bo- . ing douo.