LABOR CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 15 January 1912, Page 5

LABOR CONFERENCE.

DELIBERATIONS CONCLUDED. A WHITE AUSTRALIA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Hobart, January IS. The conference concluded with a resolution that where possible articles required for Federal use be of Australian j growth or manufacture. This was car-1 ried. Motions in favor of elective Ministers and the nationalisation of inventions were defeated. Mr. Fisher moved for the formation of a Federal Executive. He said that sometimes conflicts arose between the Federal and State parties, and nobody existed to intervene. A majority favored the motion, but not the necessary number to carry it. A Victorian motion that in order to give effect to the new protection the Federal Government should legalise eighty-four days on which all wage earners should reduce their hours when it was found necessary owing to the presence of unemployed, was lost without a division. A motion that if a referendum is successful a universal day ol rest be established in mines, factories and workshops on Sunday was carried. The relative positions of the planks of the fighting platform were altered. "A White Australia" was placed first, then the maintenance of the land tax, referendums on the new protection, nationalisation of monopolies, arbitration amendment, navigation, Commonwealth freight and passenger steamers, restriction of public borrowing, general insurance, establishment of sugar refineries. A motion that nobody enrolled under the Defence Act be compelled to bear arms against workers engaged in industrial disputes was carried.