MR HUGHES AND THE CONVENTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 April 1919, Page 6

MR HUGHES AND THE CONVENTION.

LONDON, April 2,

Mr Hughes is not convinced of the practicability of the Labour Convention without radical alteration. Its machinery is unworkable, and the methods of its constitution is unlikely to commend itself to colonial workers. Ho says: ”It seems unikely that the workers, will vicw r favourably Government representation on Conferences, but while the convention makes it necessary for the State to submit recommendations to legislatures, State representation is essentia. Again, the fact that Japan, with her cheap labour, refuses to accept the convention, at any rate for a period of years, raises a situai'on hat workers in other lands can hardly subscribe to. However, the convention is likely to be discussed and midified (before the (conference adopts it and criticism may, perhaps, bo premature.”