AGAINST WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 9

AGAINST WAR.

WELLINGTON CONFERENCE.

DELEGATES FROM AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. Over fifty delegates, representing trade unions, anti-wnr movements, women's welfare organisations and branches of Communists and Labour parties throughout the Dominion are a 1 tending the first Xew Zealand congress against war and Fascism, which opened in Wellington yesterday and was continued to-day. Senator A. Rae, a Labour member of the Australian Federal Parliament, was also present. Mr. W. H. Nugent, organiser of the corresponding _ Australian movement, said the meeting was the prelude to a great number of such gatherings and the building up in New Zealand of a large organisation. A resolution was passed pledging those present to organise great masses of tho people of New Zealand into one great united organisation in opposition to war and Fascism, so that they would be ablo to act, if called upon, with other sections of a world movement in preventing war and the spread of Fascism. With one dissentient, a motion protesting against the Government's action in prolonging its term of office was also passed. The programme for the movement was presented, but was held over until tq«day for adoption. Strong disapproval was expressed of the imprisonment in Australia of Gerald Griffen and Egon Kisch, and the attitude of the New Zealand Government in the matter. Messages were read from both men.