SYDNEY CONFERENCE
MINISTER CONDEMNED WELCOME TO CHIEF SCOUT FASCIST ORGANISATION United Press Association —By Electric, Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 20tli March, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. On the recommendation of the special "Labour Array" Committee, the Labour Conference passed a resolution for the immediate boycott of all firms allegedly forcing their employees to join the All For Australia League. The conference also, at the suggestion of the Education Committee, decided Lo ask for the abolition without delay of Empire Day saluting the Hag and the weekly loyalty pledge in the public schools, and also the removal of the ■ present checks on the importation of literature. The Boy Scouts were attacked as a militarist organisation, and the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling, was criticised for aLtending the official reception lo Lord Baden-Powell. "When we -see," said the Education Committee's chairman, Mr. M'Namara, "a Labour Minister so far forgetting the ideals of our movement., as to give a pat on the' back to a man who is the symbol of this'incipient Fascist organisation, it is time we called a halt."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 7
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175SYDNEY CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 7
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