NEW WAR MACHINE FOR LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 5

NEW WAR MACHINE FOR LABOUR

SCIENTIFIC METHODS OF CAMPAIGNING

AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' FEDERATION By Telegraph— Vxeti Aesoclallon—Oopyriahl Sydney, May 26. Mr. W. M. Hughes, in. opening the Labour Federation Conference, urged tho need for the adoption of modern industrial mofihods. In these days of gigantio aggregations of capital it was not only futile, but suicidal, to adopt the loose formation which had served unionism well enough-in days past. Modern industrial warfare was as much a matter of scientific application as warfaro botweon nations. They must be disciplined, under, rapid control, and directed to one end.

The Federation continued, Mr. Hughes, was an organisation which sought to supplement existing organisations, and, by tho establishment of efficient- machinery, gather together tho industrial forces of tho Commonwealth.

_By some the Federation's constitution would doubtless bo regardod as revolutionary, but in effect it was not, for events had recently moved with such rapidity that tho step was natural and inevitable. ' FEDERATION FORMED. i UNIONISTS DUBIOUS OF THE 310VING SPIRITS. (Bee. May 26, midnight.) Sydney, May 26. The Federation of Australian Workers' Unions has been definitely formed, with a provisional council. Mr. Hughes, tho President) said that it was proposed to present a united front to tho capitalists,-by means of the power of ooncorted and well-considered action. Numbers of unionists are dubious about the bona-fides of the moving spirits of tho federation.