Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 12 May 1916, Page 5

Australia

WOMEN FAVOR CONSCRIPTION. [Unhid Paisa Association.] * 1 m Sydney, May 11. j, Mr Cook has been presented by the 1 .Vomen’s National League with a s si petition in favor of conscription con.aiuing fifteen thousand names. * - I CONSCRIPTION FAVORED. * (Received 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, May 12. The Shires Association Conference* | carried a motion in favor of conscript | tion. A motion suggesting the elec-?; toral disqualification of shirkers was ' i defeated.

LABOR REBUKED. | (Received 10.20 a.m.) Melbourne May 12. , In the House of Representatives, ' Hr Cook denounced the Labor Confer-I mce’s activity in war time, and stated® hat Ministers degraded themselves ini '.ttending and being censured. . ; . -• SEPARATE PEACE TALK. , (Received 10.20 a.nu) ; , Melbourne, May 12. Mr Tudor, in reply to a question, <aid Germany had not consulted Ausralia with regard to a separate peace. ~ - * SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Melbourne. Mav 12. 5 ■5 In the Senate, a Soldiers’ Repatriation Bill has been introduced. The government intends asking Parliament .o vote £250,000 towards the fund. L T _—r T,.' : f- '■ ■ .. n : V CONSCRIPTION WORSE THAN ; defeat/. (Received 10.5 a.m.) Melbourne, 'May 12. In the House of, Representatives the debate bii Conscription was continued, - , Mr Brennan, an Jbit!tei‘ly it, said conscription was than defeat. . 1 \ , / i: ■■■■?. ANTI-CONSCRIPTION RESOLUTIONS.

CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH URGED. U ./i (Received 10.5 a.m.) * • Melbourne, May 12. At the Trades*Hall Congress a motion to declared generalstrike •iiiT.th© event of conscription’;' .rivas defeated, and it was agreed to hold. a referendum of unionists on the'question. The motion cabled .yesterday was withdrawn, and a motion was’ carried recording, the Congress’ uncompromising hostility to conscription, ealliug upon tho. Government to bdtr&Gript wealth, and place first in lieu of a fifth of all property assets over £3OO in value during the war, and appropriatt all income in excess of £3OO per an* num.