LABOUR CONGRESS.
AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION. (By Our Special Beporter.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Labour Congress has declared against prohibition. At the Unity Congress to-day, Mr Young's statement that to meet the views of the No-license supporters, provision was to be made that a: bare majority should rale in all questions submitted to the popular vote was renounced as not having any authority from the Unity Committee to make such a statement. It lwd not been considered by the Unity Committee at any time. A motion by Mr Drumnwxnd (Wellington Steel ajid Metal Workers' delegate) that the Congress affirms National Prohibition as a plank of the' fighting platform, was thrown out by an overwhelming'majority.
The chairman said that .all the plan kg of the" general platforai are to be left over to tihe next conference, including the question of settling any referenda by a bare majority or otherwise. - .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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148LABOUR CONGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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