SOCIALISTIC PARTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 41

SOCIALISTIC PARTY.

WELLINGTON. April 8. Tin 1 New Zealand Socialistic party's ; ;■. ;-t i iv.nf eveiice was continued to-day. The following motion was carried unanimous! v :—■ "Tliitj conference declared itself

uncompromisingly hostile to all forms of militarism. "It recognises that whilst the present class state exists army force will be used to buttress up capitalism, and to hold down the workers. The conference further recognises that all the energies of the working class can be most profitably utilised in building up theier industrial and political organisation, which shall finally render war impossible, and which organisation, by international affiliation and alliances between the working classes of all nations, are at present the chief guarantee of the peace of the world. This conference proclaims its sincere sympathy with

those youths and young men who, while denying the rights of the State to force them into military service, have resisted the encroachment on their liberties, and in consequence have suffered fine or imprisonment. This conference also declares that the so-called New Zealand Defence Act is not truly such, that it is not in the interests of peace, but tends towards war, in that, being designed with a view to coordination of the miltary forces of the Dominion witli those of the Mother Country in aggressive as well as offensive warfare, it will be considered by the people as a threat and a menace to them, and may lead to reprisals. That the present proposal is more than can be borne by this community, and must place extra business with the workers. This conference further declares that no such extraordinary measures as are embodied in the compulsorv clauses are necessary in this Dominion,' and it calls for the immediate repeal of the net.