AUSTRALIAN LABOUR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR

DIRECT ACTION CONTROVERSY. “FAREWELL _ To' FREEDOM.” By Telezranh —Press Assn.—Copyright MELBOURNE, July Mr Blakeley, president of the Australian Workers’ Union, replying to speeches of Labour members at Hobart, said the preamble and resolutions adopted at the All-Australian Labour Congress did not go beyond the present Labour pledge and objective. Mr Ogden, commenting in reply, states that the preamble provides for both revolution and confiscation. The Labour Party never flood for either, and ho hoped it never would. The Council of Action should not abrogate powers which should he possessed onlv by the sovereign Parliament. It wchild be farewell to freedom if they became dictators of Australia. A' previous message stated that the three Labour members of Parliament, addressing a largo open-air gathering at Hobart, strongly condemned the recent decision of the All-Australian Labour Conference which favoured a policy of direct action to overthrow the capitalistic system". They declared that the proposed amalgamation of all unions into one big union to control all industry was dangerous.