LABOUR COUNCIL.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 4128, 13 April 1909, Page 5

LABOUR COUNCIL.

STATE PLATFORM

Melbourne 1 2, received 10 p.m — The Political Labour Council declined to rep'ace its object've by that adopted by the Federal Labor Party at the latter's Bt'isba' e Conference. The Council decided to add a new plank to its State platform, providing for the establishment of State mines, farms, factor ies, and ships, to give employment to tlio.se requiring it, under State supervision, the employees as far as possible to be consumers of their produce and receive wages equivalent to the net total produced