POLITICAL LABOR CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 29 January 1914, Page 5

POLITICAL LABOR CONFERENCE.

LABOR MUST CONTROL THE GOVERNMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney. January 28. At the annual conference of the Australian'Workers'Union, Mr. Sconce, president, mentioned that the conditions of New Zealand unionists in the Dominion courts was a fat-toC in favor of wealth. In contradistinction 1 were the gains obtained by employees through the medium of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court. Although the purchasing power of the sovereign had decreased, the'l'xpot'ieuce of Australian arbitration was that they should gain over and above the value of the decrease. The time was at. hand when labor would have no chance unless it took control of Government, the military and police.

PARTICULARS LEAK OUT. UPPER HOUSE ABOLITION. Sydney. January 28. On the resumption of the Labor Conference a stir was created by the statement that others than delegates and members of Federal and State Parliaments were participants, and that, despite the exclusion of the press, the papers had contained substantial reports of the proceedings. The president repealed his instructions to the doorkeeper, and asked gentlemen who, had secured admittance through temporary neglect to leave. Mr. Robert Patten, Liberal Federal member for Hume, and Mr. T. Campboll left the hall. After this every newcomer was closely questioned as to his bona lides as a frienu of Labor.

Discussing the abolition of the Upper House, Mr. kimond commented severely on rumors that the Government had decided on the personnel of a batch of appointments to the Upper Home, a matter on which the conference had every right to assert its authority. The eighteen appointments v necessary would swamp the Upper House ami -cctiro a certain majority for tin- Bill to bring about abolition.

A committee was appointed to en

nuire into the claims of various sections of the movement. A WILD HAISAXUIT.. BRUTE FORCE AND ISLUnOKON'K. i Received 28, 11.JO p.m. I Sydney. January 2S. I Addressing the Australian Workers' Union Conference, Mr. Spcm-e -aid that the Brisbane, New Zealand, and South African strikes had showed that the ruling classes tyrannised the worker, by 1 using unreasoning brute f'iree. sometimes bludgeoning people to death. Therefore some of those wild-brained men who were advocating universal I strike ought to learn that until Labor obtained control of the. I'a.lhniciitary ; , uil other machines, brule lore would Ibe employed to crush unions. It was I due to the big union* gctiing control \ that the threatened spread of Hie New :■ Zealand strike was prevented. This ■ „ou!d he followed by the cslabli,„nnT.t. - „f a constitution which would bring to- ,■ gvlhcr all the large unions as a practii. ',';,] controlling force of tin- workers o! 1- Au-tralia.