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PROTEST FROM LABOUR. By Tel»sranli.—Press Association. Auckland; November 5. . At a meeting of the Labour Representative Comniitteo, a resolution was carried protesting against the suggestion to introduce conscription without having given the voluntary system a fair trial| and desiring te draw attention to the fact that, while compulsory service was freely advocated, tho voluntary system of financing wounded soldiers was being worked to death, and tho -financial burden of the war thrown on the shoulders of those least able to bear it. The Government is requested to establish training camps in each of the four centres and to provide the cost of equipping and training expeditionary forces, as well as sending home wounded soldiers, by, the imposition of a tax'on incomes.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 14
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122CONSCRIPTION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 14
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