SOCIALISTS' CONFERENCE.

West Coast Times, 10 April 1912, Page 4

SOCIALISTS' CONFERENCE.

RESOLUTIONS AGAINST MILITARISE

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The Now Zealand Socialistic Party’s Easter conference was continued to-day.

The following motions were carried ananimonsly : —“Tins conference declares itself uncompromisingly hostile to militarism in all its forms. They recognise that whilst the present class stale exists the army forces will be used to buttress tip capitalism and to hold down the workers. The conference further recognises that all energies of the working classes can ho most profitably utilised in building up their industrial and political organisations which shall finally render war impossible, ami which organisation, by international affiliation and alliances between the working classes of all nations, are at present the chief guarantee of the peace of the world.

“This conference proclaims its sincere sympathy with those youths and young men who, denying the rights of the State to force them into military service, have resisted the encroachment on their liberties, and in consequence suffered fine or imprisonment. “This conference also declares that the so-called Now Zealand Defence Act is not truly such; that it is not in the interests of peace, but tends towards war, in that, being designed with a view to co-ordina-tion of the military forces of the Dominion with those of the Mother Country; in aggressive as well as offensive warfare, it ill bo considered by the people as r threat and a menace to them, and may lead to reprisals; that the enormous cost that would bo entailed by the present proposals is more than can bo borne by this community and must place extra burden upon the workers. “This conference, further declares that

'•h extraordinary measures as are embodied in the compulsory clauses arc necessary in this Dominion, and it calls for the immediate repeal of the Act.”