LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA
MILITARY SERVICE OVERSEAS. MOTION TO AMEND CONSTITUTION. Pxwss Association—By Telegraph— l Copyright MELBOURNE, October 29. The Inter-State Labour Conference unanimously decided in favour of the Commonwealth Constitution being altered to provide that no Australian can bo con-- . 'j scripted for military service overseas. Mr E. G. Theodore (Premier of Queens*- . ,%| land) had previously moved: “That Aus« £ tralia is not to be committed -to military y action in any circumstances by any i authority whatever without the expressed approval of Parliament, except in cases of emergency, and, where time qf a referendum of the people.’’ The t votjng, ?i being even, Mr Theodore’s motion, m accordance with the Standing Orders, t*i declared lost. t ,i|| EXCLUSION OP COMMUNISTS. ■ j MELBOURNE 1 , October 30. The Labour Conference carried a motion ■% declaring itself against affiliation with--the ’jr Communists, and, further, against the ad- ,i mission of avowed Communists to the Australian Labour Party; and that the resolution should be included in the const!tations of the State branches. ' 4
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19316, 31 October 1924, Page 7
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