SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143762, 10 April 1912, Page 2

SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

PROPOSED PROPAGANDA. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 9. The Socialist conference concluded today. It was decided to appoint a paid national organising secretary for the Dominion, and to procure the services of prominent socialist lecturers to tonr the country on propaganda work. Mr. R. G. Howard, of Christchurch, was elected president, and the secretarial work loft in the hands of Mr. F. E. Cooke, also of Christchurch, till the appointment of a paid organising secretary is confirmed. The conference expressed its attitude towards the. Professor Mill; unity scheme in the terms of the following resolution; “That while earnestly and urgently desiring the unity of the workers’ of 'New- .-'calami, this conference is of opinion that such unity can only be effected if based upon the revolutionary Marxian conception of the class struggle, with the socialist objective clearly avowed and the name, procedure and principles of the socialist movement adopted.”