THE UNITY OF LABOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 51, 5 July 1913, Page 6

THE UNITY OF LABOR.

THE OBJECTS DISCUSSED

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, July 4

The Congress discussed the objects: —(1) To secure the employment of our members with preference to nonunionists, and to maintain the spirit of fraternal sympathy with the worker's of this and other countries, bj assisting them when necessary; (2) to use bur united efforts to discourage the contract labor and bonus systems and as soon as possible to abolish these, believing the said system to be detrimental in the interests of organised labor; (3) to enable and provide for the Federation to own, publish, and control a newspaper or newspaper!*, so as to ensure to members who prove to have been unjustly treated the support of the Federation, and to link up with the industrial organisations of all other countries for the achievement of international solidarity, also for a more effective workingclass action in time of international conflict. The United Federation will always act with the end in view of securing to the workers the full product of their labor.

Clause six was replaced by the fo lowing:—"To organise systematical

ly and scientifically upon an industrial union basis in order to assist in the overthrow of the capitalist system, and thus bring about a co-operative Commonwealth based upon industrial democracy."

Clauses three and four were agreed to, ■ and a new clause was added to establish, a legal bureau that will supply free advice on industrial matters to all members, and provide legal representation at a moderate cost.

At the afternoon sitting, Mr Ponder, representing the Land Values League, moved that the objects of the Congress be amended by adding that the United Federation of Labor will always act industrially and politically with a view to securing to workers the full product of their labor. The motion was lost, the voting being 92, against 212. The objects as amended were agreed to on the voices.

The president announced that the Prime Minister had agreed to receive a deputation from the Congress at 5.30 p.m., and it was decided to march in a body to Parliament House. Wellington, July 5.

On the motion of Mr Glass (Invcrcargill) it was decided by a large majority, that in order to facilitate the hnsiness and to effect unity immediately, the Congress agreed to adopt without amendment—(except clause 7 relating to strikes, article 9 and paragraph 307, article 15, relating to finance and to representation at Congress). at Congress), the whole of the constitution of labour as submitted by the Unity committee, leaving the necessary amendment to the first Conference of the Federation.