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LABOUR CRITICISM. MR PEARCE IN REPLY. By Telegraph—Press AMociation—Copyright. (Received April 10, 10.30 a.m.) MM.BOURNE, April 10. Speaking at the Eight Hours diamond jubilee celebration, Mr Gill, vicepresident, criticised members of the Federal House, and said that the grim ■* spectre of conscription stalked through a the- land. It was for the working class b to say at once that they were not t going to give away liberty so dearly .1 purchased, and they, as representatives of the workers, looked upon, as intolerable anything that was going to ' sell, as they would sell a pound of butter, the body arid soul* of the human being. If that happened, it -would be followed' by a serious revolution in Australia. "Replying, Mr Pearce said that the policy of the Government was one of voluntaryism. He had not heard of anyone who had refused to support the conscript armies of the Allies. He believed that Australia could carry on with voluntaryism, but rather thau ; that Germany should rule he would ini troduce conscription. .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11670, 10 April 1916, Page 1
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