AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE,
SYDNEY, January 27.
The annual conference of the Australian Workers' Union has opened. The report stated that the membership was now 48,000, and that the finances were in a buoyant condition. The sum of £25,000 has been collected as the first instalment of a levy towards establishing Labour daily newspapers. The conference adopted a resolution favourable to the referenda, at the same time recording its disapproval of the action of some members of the New South Wales Ministry in showing a tendency to fall away from the movement which placed them in power, thereby tending to endanger its solidarity,
January 28.
The Labour Conference approved of the Federal referenda proposals. The speakers against the altering of State powers included Mr M'Gowen, Mr Holman, and Mr Neilsen (members of the New South Wales Ministry).
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Otago Witness, Issue 2968, 1 February 1911, Page 27
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