LABOUR CONGRESS.
REFERENDA PROPOSALS APPROVED. STATE MINISTERS DISSENT. By TelegrapU.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received January 28, 9.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Labour Conference approved the Federal referendum proposals. The speakers against altering the State powers included Messrs M'Gowen (Premier of New South Wales), Holman (Attorney-General), Nielson (Minister for Lands). The referenda proposals were 'discussed in camera. WOEKEBS* UNION. BUOYANT STATE OP FINANCES. A yiETUAL VOTE OP CENSUEE. SYDNEY, 27th January. The annual conference of the Australian Workers' Union has opened. The report states that the membership now totals 48,000. The finances are in a buoyant condition, and £25,000 has been collected as a first instalment of the levy towards establishing a Labour daily newspaper. A resolution in favour of the constitutional referenda was adopted. The conference at the same time recorded its disapproval of the action of some members of the New South Wales Ministry in showing a tendency lo fall away from the movement which had placed them in power, and thereby tending to endanger its solidarity.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 7
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