COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 7 April 1915, Page 6

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

LABOR CONFERENCE. United Press Association. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, April 7. The Labor Conference discussed two censure motions referring to the Nor-ton-Grifiiths scheme, one proposing that no membof of. the Labor Party supporting the scheme be eligible at next election, and the other that the scheme of contravention as a plank of the Labour platfofm is unsound and should not be adopted. Various speakers passed strictures on the Government. Mr Holman, replying, explained that the Norton-Grifiitha scheme was the only alternative to a cessation of public works. The scheme was a departure from the Labour platform, but it was equally the duty of the Government to keep the people in employment.

Mr Hughes said he did not understand the scheme. He thought it was a step backwards. Did the Labor Party come into existence to call capital to its aid in th ehourof need and give up ites platform ? The idea! For the use of four million for from three to five months, they would undo all they had striven for for years, hiring Capitalists to take the place of the State for employment of labor, until the expiration of that time? The precedent was one the Commonwealth should not emulate. He was sure Mr Holman had striven to promote the best interests of the workers. Both motions were lost..