LABOR CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 5

LABOR CONFERENCE

AGAINST LOYALTY .MOVERENTS. OPPOSING BOV SCOUTS. (A ustralian I'rcss Association.) (Received this dav nt 12.25. p in.) (SYDNEY, .March 2:>. On tlie recommendation of tlie Special Labour Army Committee, the Labour ( oiiteronce passed a resolution for the immediate boycott of all firms allegedly lotting emnlovees to join the All For Australia League. Ihe conference also, at the suggestion of (he Education Committee, decided to rsk for the immediate abolition of Empire Day saluting of flic flag, ami the weekly loyalty pledge in public 'schools: also the removal of the present chocks mi tlie importation of literature. The Bov Scouts were attacked as a militant organisation and Chief Secretary Gosling was criticised, for attending the official reception to Lord Bade.n Powell. “When we see the Education Committee Chairman, Mr McNamara, and the Labour Minister so far forgetting the ideals of our movement as to give a. pat on the hack' to a man who is the symbol of this incipient Fascist movement, it is time we called a halt.”

The State Assembly passed the Interest Reduction Bill, under the guilloine, and the measure was read a first time in the Council. CANBERRA, March 20.

The Fiduciary Currency Bill debate is unfinished. Mr Lazzarini, one of the Langite group, denounced the Treasurer and the measure, which lie described as a confidence trick. Tlie scheme would not last three months. He intended, however, to vote for the second reading and move an amendment in Committee, “that on and after 31st. December next, no person, institution, or association of institutions. shall operate the cheque sysetn, under a ne-mltv of inv-.risonment;”