NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR CONFERENCE.

THE TOTALISATOR

illceeired April 6, 0 50 a.m.) Sydney, April 5. Tire Labour Conference discussed the Totalisator Bill. Mr Holman appealed to the Conference not to make it a plank in the platform. He was opposed to the tottilisator, but lie was prepared to allow a measure to bo passlod by Parliament, giving racegoers the opportunity of declaring which style :of wagering they favoured. He objected to its being made the crowning i triumph of the Labour movement, ; which should not teach the world the I spirit of chance, but the spirit of jusi tice. What a man earned should be i dependent upon his action and energy, i Gambling was the enemy of society and should not be encouraged ( but should rather be put down. The Conference resolved that any alteration' in the system of betting- ! should bo by a nationalised totalisator i owned and controlled by the State.