THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS
FIGHTING THE SOCIALIST-LABOIR
PAIITY
PREPARING FOR A BIG STRUGGLE.
SYDNEY, July 11.
The Employers' Federation makes no secret of it that the intention of raising a strong fighting fund in the various States for tbo forthcoming Federal elections, is to fight the Socialist-Labour party. It is stated in so many words that the object of the defence fund is to assist
the present political organisation and to bind together in opposition to the Socialist-Labour party. "We make it clear we have no objections to legitimate unions. Our object is purely to encourage investment of capital, and consequently the employment of labour in the development of natural resources." In reply to the movement amongst employers, the labour unions have opened an active campaign in the city, and at a meeting resolved, in view of the political attitude of the Employers' Federation, its undisguised hostility to the Industrial Arbitration Act and other measures for the amelioration of the conditions of the workers, and the concerted action of so-called reformers with similar aims, that trades unionists should organise for the forthcoming Federal and State elections.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2574, 15 July 1903, Page 64
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185THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS Otago Witness, Issue 2574, 15 July 1903, Page 64
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