DEFENCE ACT

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

DEFENCE ACT

/ AND THE LABOUR PARTY.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. One of the most interesting ques-, tions that 'will come before the Labour Party at- its annual- Conference will -be that of military training. To-day tike (matter was introduced by a letter from the National Peace and AntiMilitarist Council of Christ rlraroh', stating (that unrest was prevailing everywhere on account of itlie attempted militarisation of the Dominion through the operation of the Defence--Act was doubtless 'apparent to all 1 : nie&,b*ers cf• tlis- 'a'iid afskr' <ing eren.ee -to -igiye-.< a- decision, - on- the ; - aaatt-ej?'.- * : \ '.)resdlttii.%L» • \vere forwar'd^'^y-^tlte''"ClinsfcliffrelT Gwuiieil ' <"* (1)-.; N'J cejc^-. sympathy with those.' ; youths and young men who 'have' resisted encroachment upon: their liberties ; , (2) Declaring' that file so-called Defence Act is hot in the interests of peace, but tends towards war • and (3) That no such extraordinary measures as are emlb<klied .in. the compulsory clauses are necessary in New Zealand. A motion tdiat the letter should t be dealt with at .once was Iqst by, 12 votes to 11, and : .the subject will come ' before the Conference at a*"' later 1 date. . . , -■' ~