FEDERAL LABOR CONFERENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 310, 13 January 1912, Page 5

FEDERAL LABOR CONFERENCE.

Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright HOBART, Tiiis Day.

The conference has concluded. A resolution thai where possible articles required' 1 for ' Federal use be of Australian growth and manufacture, was carried. A motion in favor of- elective Ministries and nationalisation of inventions was defeated. Mr Fisher moved for the formation of a Federal Executive. He said sometimes conflicts arose between Federal and State parties, and nobody existed to intervene. The majority favored tho motion, but not the necessary number to carry it. A Victorian motion, that in order to give effect to the new protection, the Federal Government legalise 84 days for all wage earners, and reduce when found necessary by tho presence of unemployed, was lost without division.

A motion that if a referendum be successful an universal day of rest be established in mines, factories, and workshops on Sunday was carried.

Tho relative, positions of peaces of the fighting platform wasi altered, a "Whito Australia" being placed first, then follow maintenance of the land tax, referenda, new protection, nationalisation, monopolies, arbitration aniendlmeut, navigation, Commonwealth freight passenger steamers, restriction of public borrowing, general insurance, and establishment of sugar refineries. A. motion that nobody enrolled under the Defence Act be compelled to bear arms against workers engaged in industrial disputes was carried.