AUSTRALIAN LABOUR IDEALS.
« NO INTEREST IN UTOPIAN SCHEMES. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Oopyriglil London, June 6. The newspaper "Labour Leader" (the official organ of the Independent Labour Party), lias published an interview with Mr. Fisher (the Australian Prime Minister), who declined to specify the monopolies his Government had in mind to nationalise if the recent Referenda had proved successful. Ho said ho wanted Parliament to have the power to nationalise monopolies that were dangerous to the general well-being. Asked whether collectivism was the ideal of liis party, ho said the party's platform did not go further than the nationalising of monopolies. His Government attacked practical problems, and was not concerned in Utopian ideas. Incidentally, lie remarked that one clicck to the Labour movement in Britain was tho opposition to women's franchise. Ho'foiled to understand how advanced thinkers could justly refuse women the vote.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1148, 8 June 1911, Page 5
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141AUSTRALIAN LABOUR IDEALS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1148, 8 June 1911, Page 5
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