GREAT LABOUR CONFERENCE PROJECTED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11445, 26 January 1918, Page 5

GREAT LABOUR CONFERENCE PROJECTED.

TO UNIFY PEACE AIMS

ON BRITISH LABOUR. ONES. London, Jan. 21. Eeuaudel, the French Socialist, informed the Labour Conference that arrangements had made for convening the L"e«tir and Socialist Parties qf vai q oV j S countries on February iTtli. They proposed arriving at an agreement on war aims ?,h British Labour lines. SCENES AT THE CONFERENCE. LABOUR MEMBERS CONDEMNED A QUESTION OF WAGES. London, Jan. 24. There wore exciting scones at the Nottingham Congress ’ during the discussion of a resolution condemning the Labour Ministers, Messrs Brace, Birnes, Hodge, Parker and Roberts, for supporting the Government agricultural minimum wage of 25s as against the Labour amendment of 30s. The resolution was carried overwhelmiugly.

BHITISH LABOUR CONFERENCE

TWO PROPOSALS REJECTED. Reuter. Loudon, Jan. 21. The Labour Conference bus shelved the resolution demanding the withdrawal of the Labour members from the Government, and rejected the proposal that Labour members in the Government should cease to act on the Labour Executive by a two to one mujorit}’.