UNITY OF LABOUR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10604, 10 April 1912, Page 6

UNITY OF LABOUR

ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE DEMANDED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WE'LL! XGTON, Last Night. Speaking at the Conference of the New Zealand Political Labour Party to-day, <t : he chairman (Mr Hampton) mentioned the Unity proposals whidh were before another Conference,, and emphasised the fact that Labour .should not lose sight of its political interests while dealing with industrial problems. Though they.. might, as- an organisation, be swallowed up in a ilargei' body, they ill ad to >see that the work they set out to do would be properly pushed forward. They had also to - &ee that. 110 loopholes were left ■whereby a Labour candidate could lose his separate identity. It was to ibe hoped die unity proposals would Ibe finally dealt with, and that the ■workers would if all imo one common organsstation—an organisation, of useful' people of New; Zealand, which, at ■the next-' election,, would sweep the Re-form, Party and , the Liberal Party into the back-wash. .' 'There; are men |in 'both' parties-, /he added,. "wftio I ought to bo in our party, and they will' liot come in- till- the parties to ! which t'liey belong are ' thoroughly Ibeaten." Other ®pe'ak-ets emphasised the- statement that-the .Labour Party's .politics are definitely Labour, and not Liberal-Lthour or Reform-Labour politics.. "As one who occupied -a seat, in the House,'' said Mr McLaren, "I a>m >more than ever convinced tlhat our'line imu&t be one of absolute independence." Hhe conference then adjourned to enable "the unity proposals to 'be further discussed.