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WORKERS AND CONSCRIPTION. (Press Association.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, July 31. The executive of the Trade Union Con- • gre-ss to bo held in May has circulated a manifesto against conscription. After 1 referring to the effects, of conscription, in Britain and Franco, the manifesto states that trade will contend '•'•"ifli all the powers and (resources at ■their disposal * against the enactment of conditions imposed under pretence of national salvation 'upon the workers of other countries, i. LABOUR. NEWSPAPER- OFFICE RAIDED. MELBOURNE.. July 31, Senator Penrce authorised a search of the Labour Call newspaper office;, and I the police seized certain anti-conscription 1 leaflets containing seditious statements', j The leaflet was subsequently amended.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 1 August 1916, Page 5
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