LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 11, 28 January 1918, Page 6

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA

ADVISED TO ABANDON THE-STRIKE WEAPON SUGGESTED FEDERAL BODY Sydney, January 26. The half-yearly report of the Labour Council states that it had taken 27 years to bring unionism to the state of ■ perfection enjoyed prior to the strike, but it had been demolished in 27 days by .direct action. It advises unionists .to give up the strike weapon or alter their system of organisation. Referring to. the present condition of ' unionists, the report says lhat never in ' the history of Australia had employers shown such vindictiveuess towards the workers. The employers were tak- , ing full advantage of surnlus labour and hungry unemployed. It suggests that all unions should bo grouped on lines of trade affinity, and that such groups- should be formed into industrial federations, linked into a federal ,body:by the formation of an Austra- ' lian Labour Council.—Press Assn. ' -BRITISH LABOUR CONGRESS EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE WANTED (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 25. The Labour Conference at Notting- ■ ham passed motions demanding the • withdrawal of the Military Service Acts immediately after the war, and favouring the conscription of wealth in order -to pay the war expenses. It also . carried a resolution urging the Government, in view of the grave danger . of a world famine, to establish equality of food distribution, eliminate profiteering, and insist on equality of sacrifice among all classes—Renter. MANUFACTURES IN BRITAIN ARRANGING FOR. PRODUCTION OF NEW LINES. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 25. The Press Bureau states:—"Dr. Ad- : dison, Minister of Reconstruction, lias ' appointed a committee of manufac- ' turers and business men to compile a list of articles suitable for manufacture . which had not been made in Britain . before the war. A labour advisory . panel, in which skilled and unskilled ■ workers join, is co-opc-rating."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Renter.