SOCIALIST PARTY'S ATTITUDE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14325, 10 April 1912, Page 9

SOCIALIST PARTY'S ATTITUDE.

(-HES* ASSOCIATIO!. TELEGRAM.*) WELLINGTON, April 8.The New Zealand Socialist Party')* Easter Conference was continued today. Tiie following motions were carried unanimously ;-—"That this Conference declares itself uuepnipromisinaly hostile to all forms of militarism, recognising that whilst the present class State existe, army forces will be used to buttress up capitalism and to hold down the worker's.' The Conference further recognises that oil the energies of the working class can bo moat profitably utilised in building up their industrial and political organisations, which shall finally render ■war impossible, aud which, org&niss-r tions, by international affiliation and alliances between the working classes of all nations, aro at present tha chief fuaranteo of the peace of the worldhis Conference proclaims its suncpra sympathy with those youths and young men who, denying the ngbts of the State to force thorn into military (service, have resisted the gncroachpiept on their !ibo.rtu?s, and in consequence suffered fine or imprisonment- Tflip Conference also declares that tho 60----called New Zealand Defence Act is not in tjjo interests of peace, but tend' toward? war, in that, being designed with n view to the co-ordination of the military forces, of the Dominion with, thoso of the Mother Country in aggressive as well as offensive warfare, it will be considered by tbe people as. a threat and a menace to them, and may load to reprisals. That tho enorwou?' post that would be entailed by carrying out the present proposals is more than cap be borne by this community, and ni!*r>t place e*tra burdens upon the worker* 1 . Tins Conference further declares that no 6Uch extraordinary measures as are embodied in the compulsory clauses are necessary in tins Dominion, ajid it ca!l|for the immediate repeal of the Act,''