LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 133, 8 June 1925, Page 7

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

THE GENEVA DISCUSSIONS

GENEVA, .Tune 7. The International Labour conference rejected a project for a convention to provide for a weekly stoppage in the glass industry for recreation purposes. Tlie motion was defeated by only one vote, a fact which incensed tlie workers' group. A convention for workmen's compensation passed its lirst reading. The constitution provides that if a two-thirds majority is secured on a first reading it is within the competence of the conference to decide, there and then, to take the final vote. The workers' group, rankling under the earlier defeat, decided to press for the final reading.

Much argument followed. It was eventually decided to take the final vote on Monday, lt is clear many representatives of Governments and employers voted on the first reading, believing the final adoption would not be voted until next year. They are now organising their forces to secure the final rejection of the convention on Monday.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) CLOSER PERSONAL CONTACT. HOME AND DOMINIONS. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. A feature of the agenda of the annual conference of the Labour party in September is the executive's resolution containing "A Labour policy for the British Commonwealth of Nations." It urges the Government to call an Imperial conference to'submit proposals for closer personal contact between the Governments, representation of the opposition as well as Government opinion at the Imperial conferences, a survey of the natural resources as a whole with a view to scientific direction of their use for the benefit of the peoples and to prevent uneconomic exploitation.— (A. and X.Z.)