WELFARE LEAGUE
CONFERENCE OPENED.
WELLINGTON, July 9
A conference of delegates of the nowly-formed Welfare, League was opened to-day. Mr C. P; Skerrett, K.C., presided, and in welcoming the delegates he said that at the' preliminary conference held in Wellington, it. was found there was a great body' of men who felt it was time action was taken to curb the activities of extreme and revolutionary labour. ( '.' In his address, Mr Skerrett said the organisation had come none too soon; in fact it had. been needed for many years, and as for years past' a considerable section of the "community, what he termed the plain men, had been practically .unrepresented (because they had no. unity, no organisation and no oomiinon Voice. The blame Svas largely their own^ No section of tho community could obtain; its own weight in the councils of >the nation unless organised, and the League,aspired to unite all'disinterested and of moderate, sane and responsible thought. The crisis Had arrived when these men must, take their part in the politics of the:;country.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9653, 9 July 1919, Page 5
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