LABOR’S EMANCIPATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 66, 26 March 1913, Page 5

LABOR’S EMANCIPATION.

AND VOTES FOR WOMEN. By Elecfeno Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.) (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, March 25. At the Independent Labor Conference at Manchester, Mr Keir Hardie, M.P ~ was elected chairman. A resolution was passed that the Party should oppose all electoral reform until the Government introduced the franchise for women. The executive’s report regarding the progress of the movement in Britain is of an optimistic character. It states that the workers are now quicker to resent and resist any injustice, and that they no longer accept bad conditions as part of the natural order of things. The Socialists’ universal agitation against militarism, it was averred, was creating a new power in democracy.

THE NEW SOUTH WALES CONGRESS.

SPEAKS PLAIN TO BOWLING. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Sydney, March 26. The New South Wales Trade Union Congress adopted a clause enacting that in the event of an affiliated union or council ordering a strike without affording the proposed labour federation ample opportunity to investigate, the federation shall reserve the right to withhold its support or suspend or expel the offending union or council. The Congress decided that the labour federation exercise supreme authority in tlu> trade union movement in preference to the Sydney Labour Council. While the clauses in the draft constitution were being discussed Mr Peter Bowling proposed an amendment ,that the federation should represent mly the industrial labour members. The Congress told Mr Bowling he could cut no ice in Sydney. Another remarked that it was plain he wished iO replace the labour party by some other body. The amendment was rejected.