AIMS OF LABOUR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 87, 11 April 1912, Page 6

AIMS OF LABOUR.

THE UNITY PROPOSALS. (Per Press Issociation.) Wellington, April 11. 'The delegates •attending the various conferences at present in progress here were entertained at a social last night. The Hons. Laurenson, Hanan, EH and Macdonald and Sir Joseph Ward and, Mr R. McKenzie were present. * Mr- McKenzie predicted’ that if the Labour Party went about their work systematically they would have the control of Parliament within the next forty years. He believed they would have another election before September. Mr Hanan said the people of this country would haye to be up and doing if they were to keep pace with other countries; Education must ho free from the primary schools to the university. As Mr Hanan concluded Mr Hindmarsh, M.P., rose and said: “il refused to attend the Liberal caucus the other day, and I hope you will allow me to retire from this meeting.” He then left the room. Responding to “The Press,” Prof. Mills repudiated the possibility, of a Liberal-Labour Party. By the unity proposals they bad brought 60,000 unionists together. There were 15,000 more workers they were going to bring into the united party. Then they could send to Parliament a party which would do what they wanted. The New Zealand Labour Party at its conference to-day consulted the proposals which had been brought down in connection with the unity conference. It was agreed that the name of the organisation bo' the <United Labour Party of New Zealand and that its objects shall be to promote the organisation of all workers of New Zealand in all forms of necessary service to protect their interests in Ihe matter of regular, rational, and remunerative employment; to promote their good citizenship and to increase their efficiency; to consolidate their political power in their own behalf and to use their whole power both politically and economically in negotiations with the employers before the courts and in municipal, county and dominion Governments, in international relations and if need be in industrial revolt; to use the fruits of every partial victory to strengthen and continue this work until the power to oppress and exploit any of the workers either by private monopolies controlling Government or through private monopoly, ownership and control of an industry shall utterly disappear, and there shall be secured for the people power to purchase with their income the total products of their labour; until, in short, the means of production, distribution, and exchange in so far as they constitute in private hands instruments of oppression and exploitation shall be socially owned and operated without profit and for the common good of all. A number of other general clauses were also adopted.