VOLUNTEERS AND DEFENCE
HARSH LABOR VOICES. By Telegraph— Press Association. Wellington, Friday. Disclosing the subject of compulsory military training at the Trades and Labor Council meeting, .Mr. D. McLaren, M.P. said the matter was one of great importance, and act inn should lie one for the combined unions. He moved that th,. matter In. referred back to the Auckland Union with a view to having it brought lieforc the annual confer, ence. Mr. Naughtoit, in agreeing with the compulsory system of defence, said the volunteer system was a fraud and a humbug. Volunteers were doing good work, but there were not enough of them. He advocated compulsory training 'because nine-tenths of the people mill.! not take up a rill,, and hit a hayslack. 'Mr. Uuwdall said that most volunteers joined to curry favor with their employers or for private benefit. He ivas not a poltroon or a coward, but ho would not shed one drop of blood 'for .h ( . Empire until the workers were plac•d on a different linsls. The motion was carried.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 81, 1 May 1909, Page 2
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