A NEW EXPERIENCE
SYDNEY LABOUR CONFERENCE. A WOMAN PRESIDES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, February 9.The Labour Conference has bad a new experience. In the absence of the president, Mrs Dwyer presided over the sitting. Resolutions were carried in favour of a State sewing-machine factory, a Government subsidy in connection with a scheme for higher education for workers, that the copyright of all books and manuscripts published in the Commonwealth be reserved to the author without registration, and that the marriage or cohabitation of whites and coloured aliens be prohibited. It was decided to send a resolution in favour of the prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of cigarettes throughout the Commonwealth; also a resolution that at next election a plebiscite be taken on the question of the abolition of the importation, manufacture, and distribution of alcoholic beverages, to the annual conference of the Australian Labour League.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 5
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