[Editor: This article, about the standardization of the state names of the Australian Labor Party, was published in The Daily Standard (Brisbane, Qld.), 6 December 1918.]
Political unity.
The Australian Labor Party.
Prior to the Interstate Labor Conference, which met in Perth in June last, the Labor Party in each of the six States was officially known by a different name. In Queensland it was the “Queensland Labor party,” in New South Wales the “Political Labor League,” in Victoria the “Political Labor Council,” in Tasmania the “Workers’ Political Labor League,” in South Australia the “United Labor Party,” and in Western Australia the “Australian Labor Federation.” This was a remnant of the pre-federation days when each State organisation was a separate entity. At each Federal Labor Conference improved methods of Federal organisation were decided on, and it became necessary to have uniformity in name as well as in effort.
At the Perth Conference this year a resolution was carried that one name, the “Australian Labor Party,” should be adopted, each State organisation to be a State branch of the A.L.P. It has been decided by the C.P.E. to give effect to the resolution of the Perth Conference so far as Queensland is concerned.
Organisations and members of the party generally are requested to note the alteration, viz., that the Queensland Labor party is now to be known as the Australian Labor party (Queensland branch), and the C.P.E. is now designated the Queensland Central Executive of the Australian Labor party.
Source:
The Daily Standard (Brisbane, Qld.), 6 December 1918, p. 6 (second edition)
Also published in:
The Worker (Brisbane, Qld.), 12 December 1918, p. 4
The Westralian Worker (Perth, WA), 20 December 1918, p. 3
Editor’s notes:
A.L.P. = Australian Labor Party
C.P.E. = Central Political Executive (of the Queensland Labor Party)
viz. = (Latin) an abbreviation of “videlicet” (a contraction of the Latin phrase “videre licet”), meaning “it is permitted to see” (the “z” derives from the z-shaped Latin shorthand symbol for “et”, as used in the Tironian shorthand style); in actual practice, “viz.” is used as a synonym for “in other words”, “namely”, “that is to say”, “to wit”, or “which is” (used when giving further details about something, or giving a list of specific examples or items)
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