WELFARE LEAGUE CONFERENCE

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 3

WELFARE LEAGUE CONFERENCE

Vi , , ■ (Press Asswiaition.) ' WELLING TON, This DayThe; ciomf erenice of delegates of th'ei ineiwly formed Welfaire League -wara' opened toi-day 5. Ma- C. P. Skesn-teitib, who presided, welciooanug, the delegates, ,»a>id tbaitl at tlio pirelimimiairy ©odfeirapcie held at- Wellington ifc was found itihaifc titaen-e was a great 'body' ol men who felifc thaib it 'Was time ■ tihiaiii acitdon ■was takeml to curb the 'aidhrvStliesi of eKtirennei amd revoiiuiiiomairy labour. In, his address Mf Skertreltfc said thaiti the 1 orgiaaiiisajtiion had come nwne too -soon. In faciti it had been, iSeeded for many year's. Foir yeair's .past*' a.! oom&ideiraMe 'Secifcioin. oif itlhe oomnniiiinity, •-wiiiaifc he toined the "plarlw men, ' ;had 'beiein ipniacitiioally Tjmu'elp'i'e'simted betciaiiise they hbd woi mnity, n:o; oirjyainiisiaitioin. Amd no coanimtpto!-- vfoice. Hie blame vrm' Mr^ely theiir 1 own. No secltiiom of tihei oomim^iinity coitild oibltlaiiin its owrt wergihit in. tih© .oommlciiTs of a naltiioo iimlei-s otrgtanised and the Leagiue aeipared to p uniiite all dTsiintarlested a.nd moderate sani© and respoin" sab'lei. He though* that ftih'ei time had t a.mred wheiii tlSiese mem mnstb tail-e ■ tlieni' rpsaiTt, in the poiliitoios of the- ■ ooiiunitry.