AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2770, 13 May 1916, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TRADES HALL CONGRESS RECANTS By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, May !2. The motion of the Trades Hall Coris'iv-* to declare a general strike 111 the rreisl of conscription was defeated. The Congress agreed in favour of a. referendum' of the unionists, on the .question. The motion cabled yesterday was withdrawn and a motion, wnv carried recording the uncompromising hostility of the Congress to conscription, and calling upon tho Government to conscript wealth, and to place a first lien \>n one-fifth of all property and assets omr iSOft in value during the war, and to,appropriate all in;come in cxcess of .£3OO per .'annum, [The motion referred, to in the foregoing message colled on the Government to increase the pay of privates to 10s. prr day, and to nppiopriate for war pur-, poses all rents, interests, profits, .and other incomes in excess of the equivalent, pay of a private."| ■ CONSCRIPTION DEBATE, Melbourne, May 12. The conscription debate in the House of Kepreseu'tatives was-cofttiriucd. 31 r. Urennau bitterly opposed the introduction of conscription, which, ho said, was worse than defeat. • IN FAVOUR OF COMPULSION. . Sydney, May 12. At. the Shires' Association Conference ft motion was passed in favour of conscript) >n. A motion suggesting the elec'tonil disqualification of shirkers was defeated. LABOUR'S WAR-TIME ACTIVITY. Melbourne, .!U«y 12.' In the ITo'.isc of Representative;;, Jlr, Cook denounced the Labour Conference's activity during war time. He stated that Minisfori degraded themselves by attending the conference, and should be censured. SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION BILL". Melbourne, May 12. Tho Soldiers' Hcpnf.viaiinn UiU was introduced in the .Senate. The Government intends to ask Parliament for a vote of towards the fund.