FISCAL REFORM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8102, 4 October 1904, Page 3

FISCAL REFORM.

DECISION OF WORKING MEN'S CONFERENCE.

NEWSPAPER COMMENTS ON AUSTRALIA'S ATTITUDE.

Lpaisa ▲BSOCUTION.J (Received October 4, 9.14 a.m.) LONDON, October 3.

The National Workingmen's Conference, representing Lancashire, Cheshire, and West Yorkshire, at a meeting in Manchester, with a view to tho maintenance of trading interests and securing employment and. social comfort for industrial workers, unanimously resolved that it is absolutely necessary to reconsider the nation's fiscal policy The Pall Mall Gazette says tho appeal of Messrs Burns and Bell emphatically confirms Mr Chamberlain's view of the colo-

The Chronicle describes Australia as deaf to reason and says that so much talk about bargains in preference is likely to end in bad feeling between the colonies 'and the Motherland. It emphasises the selfish tendencies which regarded the maintenance of the Empire only as a moans of securing sixpence for the pocket.