LABOR ORGANISING.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1918, Page 4

LABOR ORGANISING.

FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A conference of the Labor Party adopted a scheme of organisation submitted by a special committee. It provides that the B everal Labor representation committees be given organising jurisdiction over certain electorates, and that a national organising committee be set up, to consist of the national president, the national secretary, and Labor members of Parliament. The national executive shall compile and issue to I*-. :bor representation . committees and branches literature bearing upon Labor's principles. The following Auckland remit was adapted:—The lalbor representation committee shall be the local governing body, subject to the veto of the national executive, in which case it shall nave the right of appeal to the annual conference. It shall be the duty of the LJJ.O. to control all organising work coming within its jurisdiction. _ In regard to the nomination and selection of candidates for election to ttlMic bodies, it shall be the duty of tie L.R.C. (within its own jurisdiction) to decide as to which electorate or public bodies shall be contested in the interest of Labor, and take full charge of norni* nations and selection of ail candidate* for such positions, (