FEDERAL OBJECTIVE.
UNIFICATION OP THE STATES. (Received January 9, 10.40 a.m.) HOBART, This Day. At the Labour Conference only pressmen representing Labour papers were admitted. They had to promise not to publish damaging statement by extremists A motion to amend the Federal objective, providing for an additional clause for the settl|ng of international disputes by a council of the civilised nations was rejected, as was also a clause providing for the security of 'full results of industry to air- wealth-producers bjj collective- ownership of all means of prjpductlon. This latter clause had been proposed to replace a- clause providing for a similar r<eWl by the collective ownership of monopolies. A motion for unification of the States was under discussion when the conference adjourned, Mr. Fisher, Federal Pripie minister, though not favouring straight-out unification, declared that the - Federal Government should have greater powers.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 7
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