LABOUR CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1931, Page 5

LABOUR CONFERENCE.

THREE-YEAR PLAN,

REJECTED BY DELEGATES.. SYDNEY, Monday. The Easter Labour Conference of State delegates to-day, by 65 votes to 55, revoked its decision of last night adopting the three-year plan for the socialisation of industry. The conference watered down tire plan of socialisation to provide merely for. the propagation of its aims and ideals. It had previously been adopted 'by 57 votes to -14, after a full debate. Instead, Labour members of Parliament will now be invited, to “exert their energies towards the accomplishment of socialisation.” One delegate declared that the plan adopted yesterday was impracticable, and would plunge the country into civil war. Another delegate, in a iiory speech, said he was prepared to give his blood for the cause. Their slogan should be ‘ • Sinn Fein. ’ ’ Still another declared that the socialisation committee had neither the brains to understand nor the inclination to plan a practicable scheme of social revolution. EMPIRE DAY OBSERVANCE. (Received Tuesday, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Protests against the continued observance of Empire Day and the flagsaluting ceremony in schools, are contained in the report of the Advisory Education Committee of the Australian Labour Party, submitted to the Easter Conference. Tlie Minister of Education (Mr Davies) was instructed to revise the school syllabus, eliminating the “Imperial bias,” and providing for. instruction that will give “an adequate conception of the struggles of the working class in history.-”'