LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 105, 6 January 1915, Page 2

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

SYDNEY, Jan:. 4. • Mr O’Sullivan, general secretary of the Railway Workers’ and General Labourers’ Association, in his report to the sixth annual conference, severely criticises tiie action of certain organisations in refusing to work with enemy subjects. The executive discountenanced the action in the strongest possible terms as being a violation of the spirit of unionism. It might be appropriately termed organised inhumanity enacted under the guise . of pseudo patriotism. There was no room in the ranks of unionism to 'display racial spleen. A man’s worth as a citizen and a unionist was not determined by his nationality, any more than by hiv religion or the colour of his hair. The President, at the opening of the conference stated that sooner or later all unions would extend their functions in the direction of the management of industry.