LABOR CONFERENCE
(Per Press Association.'.
WELLINGTON, last night
Tho seventh annual conference of tho New Zealand Labor Party opened) today. The president (Air T. Brind'le) was in tho chair.
The'president, in His opening address, saidi tho Labor party could look forward’ tio a new era, because its objective was distinct from tho objectives of the rival parties. Labor knew what it wanted and why it wanted) it, but rival organisations had no programme worthy of name. Tho Labor party had’ reached a- critical stage in its development. What Labor supporters had to be shown was that there was room for two movements —one industrial and 1 the other political. H«l emphasised tho point that there should he a close corporation between the industrial and political wings. The Labor party always should 1 stand strongly on tho question of internationalism. It also must stand- firm’ against war. The Labor movement was more than a “roads and bridges” movement. It had a programme! to carry into operation. It had! made motet progress in the past seven years than ever before and! it had maintained its Socialist objective,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 9
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