A LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16751, 5 January 1915, Page 6

A LABOUR CONFERENCE.

ENEMY SUBJECTS AND UNIONISM.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 4, 9.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 4.

Mr O'Sullivan, general secretary of the Railway Workers' General Labourers' Association, in his report tc the sixth annual conference, severely criticises the action of certain organisations in refusing to work with enemy subjects. The executive discountenanced tho action in the strongest possible terms as being a violation of the spirit of unionism. It might appropriately be termed organised inhumanity, enacted under the guise of pseudo-patriotism. • There was no room in the ranks of unionism for the display of racial spleen. A man's worth as a citizen and a unionist was not determined by nationality any more than by his religion or the colour of his hair.

The president in opening the corW ference stated that sooner or late* all unions would extend their funo* tions in the direction of the management of industry.