BRITISH POLITICS.
Received February 9 r 1&.45> p..m.. LONDON, Febiuary 9.. The Labour Conference, after a private discussion of the Osborne judgment, resolved that Unions ought to be allowed to engage in political activity, provided thei'r members agree, and that their actions are specified in the Union rules as part of their declared objects. Mr Griffiths* M'.P: for Wednesbury, writing in the "Daily Mail,."'' proposes that the Upper House should be curtailed to two hundred members, and the colunies should be easked renominate forty members,, who had done Imperial work;. Canada* ten, Australia eight, and 1 the' other colonies proportionately.. Mr Griffiths adds that an Imperial' Navy is< now an urgent necessity, and 1 that the Dominions perceive the need and are beginning to build: Unless they are given a chance- of expressing their feelings in the management of the navy, Britain cannot expect any fixed method or percentage of contribution, "We have;"'he concludes, "had enough off slamming thedborih the face of the colonies..
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9715, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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164BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9715, 10 February 1910, Page 5
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