AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11610, 9 August 1918, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A TOST WAR CONTROVERSY. MR BEEBY STATES HIS VIEWS. and N.Z. Cable Association.;? Received August 8, 12.40 p. m. Sydney, August S. In the newspaper controversy regarding the post-war policy, Mr Beeby, Minister for'Labour and Industry, contends that threats to continue the war, after a military victory, in the economic sphere, will only tend to gsolidify £our enemies. ' Nothing coukhhe more useful to the Kaiser than such an announcement by responsible Empire,leaders. He declares that Australia has an open mind on the question. Until the final balancing has taken place she is prepared to say, ‘T don’t care what becomes of the conquered colonies so long as final peace terms prevent Prnssian militarism ever again deluging the world with blood and tears. A TRADES UNION AIM. Sydney, August 8. The Trades’ Union Congress adopted a preamble in favour of the abolition of the capitalist class ownership of means of production, and the establishment of social ownership by tbe-wbole community, thechauge to be wrought by workers uniting in one class-conscious 5 economic organisation, i,to take hold of the means of production by rej volutionary, industrial and political | action A TREASON LETTER. Sydney, August 8. In the treason case, a letter from America was read which stated that I America’s entry into the war was the best thing that ever happened as it hud thrown the Irish ana Germans together into a united body They asked that funds be gonfc to Sydney, thence to Berlin u} direct messenger.

BONUS TO SAILORS. Melbourne, Angut 8. The Federal is paving a bonus to seamen in Commouwealth ships, employed in the danger zone.