SOCIALISTS & LABOUR.
♦ NO PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT. By Teleeroph-Prcss Association-Conyrisht (Rec. January 30, 7.30 p.m.) Sydney, January 30. At the Labour Conference, Mr. Stuart Robertson moved: "That members of unions opposing the selected Political Labour League candidates as Socialist candidates may bo eligible for selection as Labour candidates by signing the League pledges." Mr. Holman (tho State Premier) supported the proposition, cherishing a large amount of sympathy for Socialists. Tho Labour movement was largely recruited from the ranks of the Socialists, and many good! men would be lost to them if seven years' disqualification always obtained.
Speeches were made opposing the proposal, on the grounds that Socialists had no right to preferential treatment. Tho resolution iras lost.
DISQUALIFIED. EMPLOYER OF NON-UNIONISTS.. (Rec. January 31, 0.35 a.m.) Sydney, January 30. Tho Labour Conference resolved that an employer of non-unionists could not be a Parliamentary Labour candidate, CHEERS FOR MR. HOLMAN. (Rco. January 31, 0.35 a.m.) Syclnay, January 30. The Conference gave Mr. Holman a rousing farowoll preparatory to hie departure for New Zealand to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 5
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