AUSTRALIAN LABOUR.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
VIEWS ON THE PRESS. A. and N. 2* SYDNEY, June 3. Tin? Labour Conference opened to-day f j president, in his annual address, stated that the strike last year was a deliberately -engineered trap by the State and t ederal Governments to pave the way or the introduction of conscription. The question of admitting reporters produced 3° ™ A suggestion was made to a i send the press to oblivion." • Another delegate summed up the press as potential perjurers paid by the capitalist classes to do their dirty, flltbv scurrilous work."' It waß finally decided to admit the press and public except when Jdoptrf * That a. scheme for members of pAri;*™ * i_ bodied in tha 9 em "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 10867, 4 June 1918, Page 6
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