LABOUR CONGRESS
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OPENED AT SYDNEY
THE PRESIDENT]AL ADDRESS
(Received Lu:L Night, D.t'O o'clock.)
SYDNEY, Juno -1
The State Labour Congress h< opened. Mr D. Watson, in his Presidential address, said that all Unionists were aspiring to one. grand purpose—tin right of the worker to enjoy the fruits of his labour. In .advocating the Federation of Labour, Mr Watson declared that the need to-day was to make a strike absolutely unnecessary. He trusted that they would cherish the idea that strikes were obsolete weapons. The experiences of the LitJigow strike should make them shudder at the thought of .what a, general strike would mean. He concluded by saying: "If our country is in the hands of the capitalists it will be our duty to free it and possess it as cur own."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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140LABOUR CONGRESS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10650, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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