IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 84, 9 February 1903, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE LABOUR VUNO. AN AUSTRALIAN ORIKVANOS, PXR PEKSB ÜBBOCIATIO*. Received 8, 4 40 p.m. Lohdok, February 7. The Bight Hon. H. H. M.P., ex-Hone Secretary, and the Hon. B, JR. Wise, Attorney-General for New South Wales, we;e guests ef tbt Eighty Olub. Lord Tweedmouth urged t.he Liberate to make greater oonc-Fgioos to the Labour Wirg. Mr Asquith mado an overwhelming case for he Ltgislature redefining and codifying the law with regard to combinatien. He saw no prospect of Parliament setting aside the Taff-Vale decision. The workman's real difficulty lay in the application ftf the laws dealing with agency and conspiracy in relation to trades m»tnt, He suggested the maintenance of free power of combination, drawing a dear line of demarcation between legitimate pressure and every form of violence and incitement. He considered same ruU must apply to combinations of employer* as to the employed. Mr VVi«# defended and explained recent industrial legislation in Australia. He regretted that Lord Linsdownc, Secretary of 8-ato for Foreign Afl ur-, on'rary to th* spirit and resolu iin of the Premier's Conference^"" v failed to ascertain the views of Australia and Canad* before making aa engagement with Germmy regarding Ven zaela, as Aus'raiia was mum affaetd by German development in th« pacific,