ENEMY SUBJECTS
DOCTRINE OF UNIONISM NO RACIAL SPLEEN (Reo. January 4, 9.20 p.m.) Sydney, January 4. Mr. O'Sullivan, the general secretary of the Railway Workers' and General Labourers 'Association, in his report at the sixth annual conference of the association, severely criticises ■ the action of certain organisations in lefusing to work with enemy subjects. The executive discountenanced this action in the strongest possible terms, beiug a violation of the spirit of unionism. It. might appropriately.be termed organised inhumanity, enacted under the guise of a pseudo-patriotism. There was 110 room 1 in the ranks of unionism for the display of racial spleen. A man's worth as a citizKsn and unionist was not. determined by his nationality, any more than a man's religion was determined by the colour of his hair.
The president, in opening the conference, stated that sooner or later all unions would extend their functions in ths direction of the tmmißoment of in-
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 5
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154ENEMY SUBJECTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 5
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