LABOUR CONFERENCE.
—4 . THE FIGHTING PLATFORM By Telegraph—Press Association—Cooyright Hobart, January 13. Tho Labour conferenco has concluded. A resolution that where possible articles required for Federal use should bo of Australian growth and manufacture was carried. Motions in favour of elective Ministries and nationalisation of inventions wore defeated. Mr. Fisher moved for tho formation of a Fcdoral Executive Ho said that sometimes coufliohs arose between the Federal and State parties, and there was no body in existence to intervene. A motion that if a referendum is successful a universal day of rest bo established in mines, factories, and workshops on Sunday was carried. Tho relative positions of places in tho fighting platform were altered. A whito Australia was placed first, then maintenance and land tax refcrendums, new protection, nationalisation of monopolies, arbitration amendment, navigation, Commonwealth freight and passenger steamers, restriction of public borrowing, general insurance, and establishment of sugar refineries. A motion that nobody enrolled under tho Dofence Act be compelled to bear arms against workers engaged in industrial disputes was carried.
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Dominion, Issue 1337, 15 January 1912, Page 6
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172LABOUR CONFERENCE. Dominion, Issue 1337, 15 January 1912, Page 6
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