CHURCH AND LABOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13782, 22 June 1908, Page 5

CHURCH AND LABOUR.

ANGLICANS IN CONGRESS. SOCIALISM CONDEMNED. DIFFICULT PROBLEMS. . CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA *5y Telegraph.— Asaociatiou.—Copyright. (Received June 21, 4.13 p.m.? • London, June 20. The Pan-Anglican Conference discussed the question of capital and labour to-day. The speakers included Messrs. C. F. Masterman, M.P., Professor Burrows, and Canon Scott Holland, who all emphasised the responsibilities of capital towards labour. The Rev. C. Matthews (Australia) defended the Australian Labour party. Mr. F. S. Grirawade (Melbourne) condemned socialism, with which Australian labour was identified, as destructive of home life. Mr. J. H. Jenkins (Australia) said that capitalists were being squeezed in Australia to make room for labour capitalists. Canon Stephen (Australia) declared that there was no country in the world where there was ? nearer approach to social justice than in Australia, where labour moulded and directed legislation. He admitted that no means of dealing with old and slow workers had yet been discovered, and also that men might repudiate an unpopular decision by wages boards. Canon Williams (Queensland) also spoke. Sir Geo. Livesey declared that he put no trust in Parliamentary ignoramuses, whose acts produced results exactly opposite to what they expected. Conciliation and arbitration were equally useless, and the only remedy was to make capital and labour partners The Congress also discussed the organisation and development of an army of men in the matter of relegion. It was suggested that the Bishop of Stepney should make a tour of the whole Anglican communion of the Empire, on behalf of the men's mission. Mr. A. Leeper (Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne) urged the formation of a world-wide Anglican men's society, and a federation of Anglican laymen uniting all ranks in the bonds of Christian brotherhood, which would constitute an epoch in the Church's history. He hoped to see a conference of lay churchmen organised throughout the world. Canon Pugh (Brisbane) described the work of the boys' organisation in Queensland. GAMBLING DENOUNCED. London, June 19: At the Pan-Anglican Congress, Bishop Goldsmith, of Bunbury, W.A., discussing gambling, denounced it in every shape and form.