LABOUR CONFERENCE.
| ' * A MOTION NEGATIVED. ! FURNITURE FACTORY PROPOSAL By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEI, 11th February. The Labour Conference negatived a motion to effect that Labour members should contribute £10 annually to the funds of the Labour League, in their electorates, also 2£ per cent, of the moneys received by them as members of commissions. The conference carried a motion that the Government should establish a furniture factory for the manufacture of furniture required for Government offices, also to supply wage-earners on the instalment plan. A motion was carried affirming the desirableness of abolishing capital punishment m favour of perpetual imprisonment, the mover contending that hanging was no deterrent, to crime.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 36, 13 February 1911, Page 7
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111LABOUR CONFERENCE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 36, 13 February 1911, Page 7
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