Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 6 December 1916, Page 2

Australia

LABOR ADD CONSCRIPTION. EXPULSION 0 FPARTY LEADERS, Press Association—Copy right. (Received 10.55 a.in.) Melbourne, December U. Ihe Inter-State Labour Conference, embracing delegates from ev; ry State, •with the exception of West Australia,, vigorously condemned Mr 'Hughes and his followers for refusing to oppose conscription. The Conference carried a motion expelling from tiie movement all the Federal members who advocated Conscription, or who formed another political part \. Senator Ciardinor Opposed the motion, and the members of the federal Labour Party announced that they intended to move in the direction of deposing him from the leadership of tin l Party in the Senate. in tin' course of an interview, Senator LyiUiil Said that, the exclusion movement was undoubtedly Urn limit of audacity and lawlessness, as tile

Conference was illegal, the chief cause of the upheaval in the movement being clue to the weakness and insincerity of the so-called loaders. lii the West, the leaders stood up to their duty, while in the East they cowered in fear and trembling of the irresponsible Trades Hall juntas. Had those spurious leaders of public thought stood manfully to their guns, and spoken instead of stifling thought, Conscription would have been carried by half a million votes.