LABOUR CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS.
(Received May 11, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The Labour Conference has concluded. It recommended the Government to empower ( 'the Commodities Commission to determine. wages and-- enquire into profits, with a view to regulating tho prices in any, industry.
A motion was carried endorsing Senator Pearce's opposition to conscription.
The conference advocated an international understanding^among workers 'to render war impossible ; that no further war loans bearing interest should be raised in future, and that money, for war needs should be raised by compulsory pro rata contributions by people with incomes of £300 per annum and over. '
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 111, 11 May 1916, Page 7
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