LABOUR’S OBJECTIVE.
DIRECT ACTION CONDEMNED. Melbourne, July 28. —Mr Blakeley, president of the Australian Workers’ Union, replying to speeches of Labour members at Hobart, said the preamble and resolutions adopted at the AllAustralian Labour Congress did not go beyond the present Labour pledge and objjective. Mr Ogden, in reply, states that the preamble provides for both revolution and confiscation. The Labour Party never stood for either, and he hoped it never would. The Council of Action should not abrogate powers which should be possessed only by the sovereign Parliament. It -would be farewell to freedom if they became dictators of Australia.
(Labour members of Parliament, addressing a gathering at Hobart, condemned the recent decision of the All-Australian Labour Conference, which favoured a policy of direct action to overthrow the capitalistic system.)
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Wairarapa Age, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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