LABOR OBJECTIVES

Evening Star, Issue 18263, 1 May 1923, Page 7

LABOR OBJECTIVES

A SYDNEY CONFERENCE.

BRISBANE PLATFORM ADOPTED.

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SYDNEY, April 30. A joint conference between the delegates of the Australian Labor Party and representatives of the trade unions reaffirmed the Red or Socialistic objective adopted at Brisbane in 1921. The conference resolved that a plank be inserted in the Labor platform making it a criminal offence for outsiders to rake the place of strikers during a strike, the offence to be punishable by imprisonment up to six months. It was further resolved that the registration of the loyalist unions formed since the 1917 maritime strikes be cancelled, and that members of trade unions while locked out should receive full maintenance. These decisions will be remitted to the annual conference, to bo held in June.

The Brisbane objective is as follows : The socialisation of industry, production, distribution, and exchange.

Socialisation of industry by (a) the constitutional opera tion of industrial and parliamentary machinery; (b) the organisation of workers along the lines of industries; (c) nationalisation of banking and all principal industries: (d) the municipalisation of such services as can best be operated in limited areas; (e) government of nationalised industries by boards, upon which the workers in the industries and the community shall have representation; (f) the establishment of an Elective Supreme Economic Council by all nationalised industries; (g) the setting tup of Labor research and Labor information bureaux and of Labor educational- institutions, in which the workers shall be trained in the management of the nationalised industries.

The cultivation of an Australian sentiment, tho maintenance of a White Australia, and the development in Australia of an enlightened and self-reliant community. Complete Australian self-government ns a British community. No Imperial Federation. Administration on the advice of Australian Ministers only, subject to control of the Commonwealth Parliament. All legislation, except such as appears Jnconsistent with Imperial treaty obligations, to be assented to on the advice of Australian Ministers only. No further Imperial honors to bo granted in any circumstances to Australian citizens. The Commonwealth Constitution _to ho amended to provide : —fa) Unlimited legislative powers for the Commonwealth Parliament, and delegated powers to the States or provinces as Commonwealth Parliament may determine from time to time; (b) the Commonwealth Parliament to be invested with authority to create now States or provinces; (c) the Senate to be abolished; fd) the High Court of Australia to have final pmsdiction in all Australian causes; (e) the principle of adult suffrage to he embodied in the Constitution; (f) the initiative and referendum.

MAY DAY PLOT DISCOVERED

COMMUNISTS BUSY IN TURKEY,

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30. (Received May 1, at 8.55 a.m.) Thirty arrests were made, including several Russians, of persons implicated in a Labor Day plot to depose Turkish Government and substitute Soviet rule. The movement was engineered by Russian Communists. —A. and I“.Z. Cable.

BRITISH PARTY’S CONVENTION.

LONDON, April 30. (Received May 1, at 8.55 a.m.)

The agenda for the Labor Party’s Conference, which will open in London on June 26, contains a number of resolutions urging affiliation with the Communist Party. Three resolutions will urge nationalisation of the laud, for which the landlords shall be compelled to pay the economic rent, with the creation of a tribunal to which dispossessed landlords may appeal.—A. and N.Z, Cable.