LABOUR IN POLITICS
THE PARTY IN AUSTRALIA. SPEECH BY MR HUGHES AT SHEFFIELD. By Telegraph-Presa Association-Copyright. (Received May 26, 1.5-1 p.m.) LONDON, May 25. Mr TV*. M. Hughes, a member of the Australian Commonwealth Parliament, addressed an enthusiastic meeting at Sheffield yesterday under the auspices of the Independent Labour party. Mr Hughes declared that the recent elections in Queensland had only proved that the Labour party had indulged in the "luxury of fighting among themselves. The party, however, would he all the stronger at the next elections. “The Labour party in. Australia, 3 ’ said Mr Hughes, ‘has never allowed fiscalism to divide it, and never will. It has made politics a people’s question, and the people arc supporting the party in larger numbers each year.” Mr W. M. Hughes, who is a barrister by profession, is Labour member for West Sydney. Ho is president of the Waterside workers' Federation and of the New South Wales Carters' Union, and secretary of the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union. He was Minister for External Affairs in the Federal Cabinet formed by Mr Watson, the Labour leader, in 1904. The Ministry was wrecked on the preference to unionists clausa in the Arbitration Act, after a short term of office. Mr Hughes has been in native politics since-1894.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6219, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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