NOTTINGHAM LABOUR CONFERENCE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11446, 28 January 1918, Page 5

NOTTINGHAM LABOUR CONFERENCE

DEMAND CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. FEARS OF A WORLD FAMINE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, Jan. 25. The Labour Conference at Nottingham passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of the Military Service Acts immediately after the war and favouring the conscription of wealth to pay the war expenses. They a’so passed, a resolution urging the Government, in view of the grave danger of a world famine, t o establish an equality of food distribution, to eliminate profitcoring;, axid to ir.sist ouecjuality ot sacrifice for all classes.