CONDEMNED.

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1916, Page 3

CONDEMNED.

SENTENCE PASSED ON MR HUGHES.

Australian and N Z. Cable Association

MELBOURNE, December 6.

'At the Inter-State Labour Conference the delegates from every State, with the exception of West Australia, vigorously condemned Mr Hughes and his followers for refusing to oppose conscription. The conference carried a motion expelling from the movement all the Federal members who advocated conscription, and formed another political party. Senator Gardiner opposed the motion, whereupon the members of the Federal Labour party announced that they intended to move deposing them from the leadership of the party in the Senate. In the course of an interview Senator Lynch said that the expulsion motion was the undoubted limit of audacity and lawlessness, as the conference was illegal. The. chief cause of the upheaval in the movement was the weakness and insincerity of the so-called leaders. In the West the leaders had stood up to their duty, while in the East they had cowered in fear and trembling before the irresponsible Trades Hall juntas. Had those spurious leaders of public thought stood manfully to their guns and spoken out, instead of stifling tiuiir thought, conscription would have been carried by ha,]f-a-millioo votec, contended.