LABOUR IN AUSTRALIAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 4

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIAN.

CONFERENCE OPENED.

FATE OF UPPER HOUSE.

CRITICS OF GOVERNMENT.

By Telegraph— Press Association— Copyright.

(Received April 4. 7 p.m.)

Sydney, April 4. The Political Labour League Conference* opened on Saturday. Mr. Meagher. Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Assembly, who presided. emphasised that the conference was supreme. They wanted no " political mandarins" or " bosses.' If anyone allowed the idea to grow of a Parliamentary party superior to the conference, then Labour would be ripe for disintegration, He favoured wiping out the Upper House. The Premier, .Mr. \Y. A. Holman, in defending I'pper House appointments, foreshadowed the appointment of another ! batch of Labour supporters. Those demanding the wiping out of the I pper House, were more desirous of destroying the Government. The Government »as pushing the Labour programme through, and in a few years, by filling vacancies, would establish an I'pper House which would consent to its own destruction. Matters arising out of the war were now so settled that there was no longer any need for the Government to withhold carrying out its programme. The conference promises to je stormy, as the agenda includes several resolutions censuring the Go\ernment.