AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.
LABOR CONFERENCE APPROVES FISHER’S POLICY.
AN EXTREMIST AMENDMENT REi JECTED.
United Press Association—Copyright (Received April 21, 12.36 a.m.)
i SYDNEY, April 20. i The Labor Congress endorsed Mr. Fisher’s naval policy, and rejected an amendment by Mr. Bowling, delegate for the Newcastle miners, that the naval subsidy to Britain be withdrawn, and that a complete system of military training should be inaugurated for defence purposes on purely volunteer lines : and under democratic control. The mover said that he disliked Mr. Fisher’s policy as much as any put forward by a .capitalistic Government. The Fislier Government, he said, was not properly representative of the workers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2481, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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106AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2481, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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