AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY.
Press Association—Copyright Received April 28, 9.50 a.m. Melbourne, April 28. The Eight Hour Demonstration was partly spoiled by showery weather. Speakers referred to tire railway disaster and coudemmed the long hours worked by euginemen. Mr Fisher, Leader of the Labor Party, declared that the party was too modest. Unions throughout the Commonwealth must ask themselves next . election whether the Federal Parliament should receive increased power to pass industrial legislation. Mr Prendergast declared that on all questions affecting workers the State had given up their powers to the Commonwealth.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9131, 28 April 1908, Page 5
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91AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9131, 28 April 1908, Page 5
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