LABOR AND POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 179, 28 January 1914, Page 5

LABOR AND POLITICS.

.UK. IIOLMAN OX lIOT-UEADE!) FiKEISIiANDS. SOME I'LAIX TALK. A POLICY' OF EXCLUSION. By Cable— Press Association—Copyright Received 27, 0.5 p.m. Sydney, January 27. Speaking' at the Labor Conference, Mr. Uolman declared that tiot-fteadc'. lirebrandst who merely utter protests ol individual feeling must take a bad; seat, and men capable of guiding the Ship of .State must come to the front. Aftoc Wi\«n. debate, the confcvenc', by 92 votes to 18, refused to recognise Mr. Page, member for Botany Buy, as a Labor member. Mr. Page, who was turned down by the party at last election because of his refusal to support the. Federal referenda proposals, won the seat against the Labor League's nominee.

Mr llolinau strongly championed Mr. Page, on the ground that the referenda proposals were never approved by the Political Labor League conferences, and therefore Labor members could not constitutionally be asked to support them. Mr. Page had done no worse than himself. Why not deal with him also?

Mr. J. C. Watson and others argued that the conferences had repeatedly endorsed the referenda. Ml. Page's attitude- was. different. Mr. Holman's health had been so tad that ho had to go to London at that particular time. (Laughter). The conference declined to admit one delegate because allegedly he had turned dog on (lie movement.