LABOUR CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7

LABOUR CONFERENCE

■ ■ / SLOW WORK AT GENEVA

TROUBLE. OVER SELECTION OF COMMITTEES.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPXRIOHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-iIEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) V LONDON, 18th June. . The Australian Press . Association's special correspondent at the International Labour Conference at Geneva states: "The conference is making very slow progress, as the system of block nomination and voting is holding up work. A meeting of the Government group of South Americans submitted a block 6f names for election to: the anthrax committee. The Australians drew attention to the absence of Commonwealth representation in the list, and tho futility of carrying on under such conditions, and said it was tantamount to a suppression of rights. The States desiring representation in the grouf then agreed to individual nominations and .a secret ballot, Australia receiving 51 votes out of * a total of 58.

"Messrs. Curtain and Thomas objected to the same system in their group. Both were elected to the anthrax committee, thus giving Australia triple representation. An Australian was also' elected to the night baking committee.

"Tlie Italians threaten to withdraw unless _ they are admitted to the deliberations of the grand committees. Labour delegates who are opposing their admission on the ground that Fascist organisations did not fulfil the terms' of part 13 of tho Versailles Trca!.« arc being pressed to reconsider l':dr objea-