POLITICAL LABOR CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 27 January 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL LABOR CONFERENCE

LABOR PREMIERS ATTEND. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 26, A.35 p.m. Messrs. Fisher (Federal Premier), McGowen (New South Wales Premier), and Verran (South Australian Premier), were present'at the opening of tiie Political Labor League Coiifeunce, and delivered congratulatory speeches on the progress of the Labor movement. Mr. Verran declared that he and other Labor premiers would not allow themselves to suffer from big head, but would work together calmly for the benefit of the whole of the workers of Australia. After some opposition, the Conference decided to admit the Press.

| YESTERDAY'S RESOLUTIONS. Received 27, 12.15 a.m. Sydney, January 20. The Labor Congress negatived a resolution that for the present objective there be substituted the development .of a higher individuality and a clearer approximation to economic justice by the socialisation of industry and wider diffusion of education; also an amendment favoring the securing to workers the full result of their skill and industry by collective ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. A committee was appointed to confer with the Premier and Attorney-General on the question of ensuring nominees to the Legislative Council who will vote to give effect to the Labor platform.

A debate on the Federal Referendum proposals is fixed for to-morrow.