SECOND THOUGHTS
LABOUR AND UNEMPLOYMENT CONFERENCE. NEW SOUTH WALES COUNCIL LIFTS BAN. OPINION SHARPLY DIVIDED. (Received Friday, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 6. It is believed that the Labojur Council, as a result of a decision reached last night, may lift the boycott on the Unemployment Conference and instruct its representatives again to participate in the discussion. Considerable difference of opinion prevailed on the subject, and sharp criticism of the council by Mr. Garden for withdrawing the delegates is understood to have been the cause of a reconsideration of the position. Mr. Garden said that the Australian Workers’ Union, by supporting afforestation, had adopted a good policy, placing the onus on tho employers to evolve a scheme to alleviate unemployment. Mr. Ryan, one of the delegates who retired from the conference, controverted this view, declaring that the Australian Workers’ Union only supported tho conference in the hope of getting some goodjpositions from tho Government. The council agreed by 18 votes to 16 to endorse its manifesto in regard to the conference, but to refer tho question of lifting the embargo to the executive.—(P.A 1
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1928, Page 5
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