EMPIRE LABOUR.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18182, 19 September 1924, Page 9

EMPIRE LABOUR.

CONFERENCE AT HOME. (BJ CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTKIGET) (AUSTBiLIAS AKD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'.) LONDON, September 17. At the British Commonwealth Labour Conference, organised by the Trades Union Congress, Great Britain and all the Dominions were represented. Tho agenda includes intra-Common. ! wealth relations, intra-CommonwealtJj migration, treatment of native subject races, Labour Party relations throughout tho Empire, maintenance o£ world peace, and the political and economic programmes of the Empire's Labour Parties. The principal speakers were Jlosars Poulton, president, Ben Tillett, MP., G. Lansbury, M.P., Rhys Davia, UnderSecretary for the Home Office, and C. T. Cramp, railwaymen 'a leader. The proceedings were private. It is believed tbo speeches favoured promotion of an intra-Imperial Labour policy on subjects embraced in the agenda. THE FRUITS. LONDON, September 17. . The Labour Conference decided:— (1) That the discussion upon migration, the treatment of coloured natives races and preferential trade should be communicated to affiliated bodies without a resolution being passed. (2) That the British Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress should appoint a standing committee to deal with matters relating to the Dominions, and that - the committee should consult overseas Labour bodies on matters of importance. (3) That a further conference should be held in London in August, 1925, and that it was desirable that similar • conferences should bo hold at least two years.