ANTI-CONSCRIPTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 5

ANTI-CONSCRIPTION

■ B . / CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS. . The following resolutions were passed at yesterday's meeting. of the AntiConscription Conference :— "That tlie conference recommends to the Trades Union, political labour bodies, and kindred organisations a national campaign to securo the repeal of the Military-Service Act; further, that all branches, and bodies represented at.the conference call upon the representatives of their respective districts to explain to the electors why they have delegated their functions to Cabinet or to an Army Council, and why they voted themselves an extension of political life." "Tl'at the president, vice-president, and secretary of the, National Labour - Party seek legal opinion as to whether the Military Service Act is in agreement with the Act of Constitution, and that they be empowered to take_ a'test case to the Supremo* Court if the opinion is in that direction; also that a campaign be organised for the release of the men now in gaol, and that a fund be started Ho provide for the . families of those men in gaol and for tho single men in gaol." A committee was set up, Tvith Mr. E. J. Howard as organising secretary, and Messrs. J. Glover ("Maoriland Worker"), J. G. Bruce (Waterside Workers), •' P. Grayndler (of the A.P.U.), and Mr. O. M'Kenzie (Labour Representation Committee) as a central committee to administer the fund. A resolution was also carried expressing appreciation of the services rendered to tho Labour movement by the men now in gaol, and assuring • them that ay the delegates present would \ leave nothing undone to.'secure their release. . . . It was decided to endorse the idea of holding an open-air demonstration in AVellingtbn on Sunday, afternoon, and the conference then-closed.