LABOR’S DEMANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1921, Page 5

LABOR’S DEMANDS.

THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE. I _ A 44-HOUR WEEK. By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyr Igh t. Received April 8, 7.35 p.m. Sydney, April 8. The Labor Conference adopted a resolution that it be an instruction to the Government to bring in a 44-hour week for all industries. Other resolutions favored fixing the mandatory age for leaving school at sixteen; that allowance be provided under the Education Act for all families up to the age of sixteen; and that university fees be abolished. The conference has concluded.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received April 8, 8.15 p.m. Sydney, April 8. According to an official report of the Australian workers’ recent conference, Mr. Walsh (president of the Seamen’s Union), in a speech, declared that seamen would not have arbitration. They held there was nothing to arbitrate about, and they would only accept such a compromise as they were driven to, and holding to agreements as long as it was suitable and breaking them as the circumstances of the moment demanded and if revolutionary emergencies demanded it. Even tne existing constitution of the Seamen’s Union would be scrapped until the Workers’ Union was prepared to accept views similar to those of the Seamen’s Union., There was no hope of the seamen joining the proposed union.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.