LABOUR OFFICIAL'S RESIGNATION.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 5

LABOUR OFFICIAL'S RESIGNATION.

CABLE NEWS.

SPLIT ON THE RECRUITING * QUESTION.

BELGIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE SUSPENDING OPERATIONS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association")

(Received Dec. 22, 9.25 p.m.)

Sydney, Dec 22. Mr Cahill, president of the Labour Council, has resigned from the Political Labour League oexcutive, owing to its attitude towards the recruiting campaign. - \

The National Belgian Relief Fund Committee has decided, owing to- the Germans commandeering and requisitioning food supplies in Belgium, not to ask for further contributions to the fund, or send forward any further subscriptions pending developments. The Committee has £44,000 in hand.

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