LABOUR CONGRESS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 3 February 1911, Page 5

LABOUR CONGRESS

CABLE NEWS

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PROTEST AGAINST ARMAMENTS. ARBITRATION* RECOMMENDED. (Received February 2, .8.6 a.m.) LONDON, February 1. The Labour Conference at Leicester adopted a resolution submitted by the executive protesting against the growing armaments, and recommeinlir-g arbitration in international disputes. - Mr Keir Hardie, M.P.. for Merthyr»Tydvil, moved an amendment to eonsuit the organised workers of /the world as to the utility, of a general strike, as a means of preventing any given war. The amendment was rejected by 12-» votes to 119. Mr Jarvis declared that if wars between countries were inhuman, so were labour wars. If they condemned militarism they ought to provide means of defence. Messrs Shaw, Clitheroe, Austen, I and Henderson (M.P. for. Barnard Castle), strongly opposed a general strike. The Conference, urged the Government to endeavour to" prevent the capture of private property during maritime warfare. - Reports submitted to the conference showed that the membership had decreased by 50,000 owing-to the judgment in the Osborno case, which Tcclared compulsory levies by trade unions for political purposes illegal. The Parliamentary JH'unii at the be 'burnings of thd'years amounted to £14,000.

THE, RIGHT TO WORK

(Received -Last.'Night,' 9,15. o'clock.)

LONDON. February 2. - Mr W. C. Robinson, In his presidential address at the Leicester La bour Congress, said they would not accept assurance against unemployment through sickness or other palliatives as a substitution for the right to work guaranteed by the State. The Conference recorded indignation at the recent executions in Japan.

A proposal to allow the party's candidate'to appear before the constituent* as labour or labour and socialist ir, • steed* jof ,lab*our candidates only : "•. A motion intended to stiffen the attitude of labour members of Parliament against Ministerial pressuie. was also defeated,.