LABOUR AND POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15986, 31 January 1914, Page 9

LABOUR AND POLITICS

CONFERENCE AT GLASGOW.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, January 29,

The Labour Conference at Glasgow almost unanimously .resolved that the permanent improvement of the workers' lot is only fully realisable by joint action on trade union and independent political lines. Mr J. Ramsay Mac Donald strongly supported the resolution as a definite challenge to syndicalism.

NEW SOUTH WALES CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, January 30. (Received Jan. 30, at 7.30 p.m.) At the LaFour Conference Mt Stuart Eobertson moved that the members of unions opposing the selected Political Labour League candidates as Socialist candidates may be eligible for selection as Labour candidates by signing the league pledges.

Mr Holman supported the proposition, cherishing a large amount of sympathy for the Socialists. He said the Labour movement was largely recruited from the ranks of the Socialists, and many good men would be lost to them if a seven years' disqualification always obtained.

Speeches were made opposing the proposal on the ground that Socialists had no right to preferential treatment, and the motion was lost.

January 30.

(Received Jan. 31, at 0.35 a.m.)

The Labour Conference resolved that an employer of non-unionists could not be a parliamentary Labour candidate.

The conference | gave Mr Holman a Tousing farewell preparatory to his departure for New Zealand to-morrow.