AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association.

THE TREND OF LABOR.

SYDNEY, March 10. (Received March 10, at 10.30 0..m4 The resolutions at the forthcoming Labor Conference will include proposals for a 38-hour working week in all Government departments and in secondary industries, and a 50 hour week for minors. It is also proposed to make voting compulsory and to reduce the voting ago to 18 rears.

A POPULAR CHAPLAIN

SYDNEY, March 9._ The nomination of Chaplain-captain AV.ilson as the Soldiers’ Association candidates for the Petersham hy-election was refused on the ground that his name was not on tho roll. It in stated that the decision affects altogether 3,500 returned soldiers. Mr Holman immediately announced that a special Cabinet meeting would be held on Monday with a view, if possible, to passing validating legislation to overcome the difficulty. DETENTION FOR. SOLDIER POLITICIAN. MELBOURNE, March 9. Gunner Yates, M .1L.1t., has been sentenced to 60 days’ detention in connection with tho Somali' troopship trouble in Adelaide, with a recommendation to mercy on tho ground of tho relaxed conditions of discipline aboard the vessel.