THE UNITY SCHEME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 240, 10 April 1912, Page 5

THE UNITY SCHEME.

LABOR'S POLITICAL IDEAL. By T«l«graph—Prww Association. Wellington, Yesterday. Speaking at the conference of the New Zealand Political Labor Party to-day, the chairman (Mr. Hampton) mentioned the unity proposals which were before another conference, and emphasised the fact that labor should not lose sight of its political interests while dealing with industrial problems. Though they might as an organisation be swallowed up in a larger 1)ody, they had to see that the work they set out to do would be properly pushed forward. They had also to see that there were no loopholes whereby a Labor candidate could lose his separate identity. It was to be hoped that the unity proposals would be finally dealt with and that the workers would fall into one common organisation of useful people of New Zealand, which at the next election would sweep the Reform Party and the Liberal Party into the backwash. There are men in both parties, he added, who ought to be in our party, and they will >not come in till the parties to which they belong are thoroughly beaten, Other speakers emphasised the statement that the Labor Party's politics arc definite Labor, not 'LiberalLabor or Reform-Labor politics. "As one who occupied a seat in the House," said Mr. McLaren, "I am more than ever convinced that our line must be one of absolute independence." The conference then adjourned to enable the unity proposals to be further discussed.