LABOR PARTY'S CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 230, 3 February 1911, Page 5

LABOR PARTY'S CONFERENCE

MR. KISIR HARD] E'S SUGGESTION. A STRIKE TO PREVENT WAR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, February 1. The Labor Party's Conference at Leicester adopted the executive's resolution protesting against growing armaments, and recommending international arbitration. Mr. Keir Hardie moved an amendment that steps should be taken to consult the organised workers of the world as to the utility of a general strike as a means of preventing any given war.

The amendment was rejected by 125 votes to 119.

Mr. Jarvis declared that if wars between countries were inhuman so were labor wars. If they condemned militarism they ought to provide means of defence.

Messrs. Shaw, Clitheroe, Austen and Henderson, M.P., strongly opposed a general strike. The Conference urged the Government to endeavor to prevent the capture of private property during maritime warfare. EFFECT OF OSBORNE JUDGMENT. London, February 1. The Labor Conference reports that the membership has decreased by 50,000 owing to the Osborne judgment. The Parliamentary fund at the beginning of the year stood at £14,000. THE RIGHT TO WORK. THE "SOCIALIST" DECLINED. Received 2, 9.15 p.m. London, February 2. Mr. W. C. Robinson, in his presidential address at the Leicester L-.bor Conference, said they would not accept assurance against unemployment through sickness, or other palliatives, as a substitution for the right to work guaranteed by the State.

The Conference recorded its indignation at the recent executions in Japan. The proposal to allow the party's candidates to appear before their constituencies as Labor or Socialist, instead of Labor candidates only, was rejected, also a resolution intended to stiffen the attitude of Labor members in Parliament, against Ministerial pressure.