Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 19, 27 April 1916, Page 8

Australia

LABCfi itt CONFERENCE. OBNOXIOUS CLAUSE DELETED. s O’S ITKl'ltlnn A SSoOI AVION - (Received 9.1-5 a.in.) Melbourne, April 27. The Labor Ce. Terence Peleted the clause adopted by the Political Labor Council last year whereby members of the Catholic federation, Victorian. alliance Licensed \ ictuallers’ Association and the Orange Lodge v.ore debarred from membership. The dele turn lias ended intense friction \\ iiicli arose over the adoption of the clause, and restores many hundreds, particularly in the Catholic Federation, to membership.

LABOR'S RANKS DIVIDED. N.S.W. GOVERNMENT ATTACKED. (ministry called on to resign (Received 9.L5 a.m.) Sydney, April 27. Proceedings at the Labor Conference disclosed a cleavage in the ranks and a strong anti-Ministerial party. The Herald states that between the sittings between sixty and seventy delegates, amounting to a majority or the total delegation, formed themselves into a distinct section and elected a president and generally instituted an organised attack on the State Government and the Parliamentary Labor Party generally. The discussions produced much censure of the Government’s administrative nets. air Barclay, a delegate from the Australian Workers’ Union, moved that the Government be severely censured for refusing, to endeavor to give client, •to the first plank of the Labor platform, viz., the abolition oi the 1 pper House, and he vigorously attacked the Government.

Mr Holman, replying, declared that if lie went to the country that cry would he defeated so clearly that he was of opinion that if the conference decide it was the rightcourse lie would ask to he relieved of the responsibility of leadership. He had. consulted his colleagues, who had endorsed his action. Mr Blackffey, of the Australian Workers’ Union, accepted the Premier's challenge, and called on the Ministry to resign. He compared tne State with NcW Zealand, winch never had a Labor Government, and yet a better Workmen’s Compensation Act than Mr Holman Jiad given the people. The motion was’ carried by 104 to OH, and the meeting adjourned.

ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL. (Received 9.1 d a.m.) Sydney, April 27. Referring to Anzac Day, Air Wade said the collection at the memorial was disappointing, but he asks soldiers not to he discouraged, as the obligation rests on ovei'y Government, to provide a memorial at the expense of the State.

CRY FOR CONSCRIPTION, (Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, April 27. The annual conference of the Australian Natives’ Association passed a motion in favour of Conscription, one delegate saying that . men who did not enlist were loafing on the sweat of other men’s hrows. ACTION AGAINST FRAUD. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, April 27. The police have been instructed to take the boxes from soldiers collecting for hospitals on Saturday. land for ex-soldiers. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Brisbane, April 27. The Government has written to Sir Rider Haggard oliering a million acres if the State will raise toe money to prepare the land lor occupation by ex-service men in the I nited Kingdom.