LABOUR POLICY.
SYNDICALISM CONDEMNED. Sy Telezraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, April 23. Eight Hours Day was celebrated by the usual procession and sports. There was fino weather. At the luncheon Senator Penrce, Federal Defence Minister, referring to the Labour party's policy, declared that tho party had been against immigration when there was no land to offer tho newcomers. Things wero now different. Ho was not sure that tho progressive land tax had done all it was thought it would do, but the Government was determined that land monopoly should bo removed. "Dealing with tho question of arbitration, ho said the system had not yet had a fair trial. Mr." Penrce uttered a word of warning against a small section of trades unionists striving after syndicalism, which was a foolish, hysterical idea. Ho appealed to the workers not to let this small section iftaia influence.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1422, 24 April 1912, Page 5
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142LABOUR POLICY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1422, 24 April 1912, Page 5
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