SYDNEY LABOUR CONFERENCE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 3

SYDNEY LABOUR CONFERENCE

(By Cable. —Press Association.—-CopyrigSit.i SYDNEY, February 7. The Political Labour Conference has adopted the following platform for the State: Economic government, inducting abolition of tbe Legislative Council and the State Governorship. Closer settlement, with resumption at the owner's valuation for taxation purposes, phis ten per cent. Cessation ot Crown land sales. Apn-algamation of the etxisting leaving banks and Advances to Settlers' Board into a State bank. Water conservation and irrigation. Free education. Progressive land value tax. Full civil rights to Federal, State, and municipal employees. Local government Cessation of borrowing, except for redemption and the completion of works already authorised, and undertakings which will pay interest from the beginning and provide one per cent, sinking fund. The Conference also has carried general ■resolutions as follows: In favour of establishing State sugar mills: that not less than 000 square miles be allocated to the Commonwealth Government for a Federal capital site. Ail the proposals dealing with Federal matters will be remitted to a conference of inter-State politicians and trades union delegates, to meet in June next. These proposals are:— The abolishing of the indirect method of raising Federal revenue by duties on food and clothing, and substituting a tax on the unimproved value of land. That in antagonism to the importation of foreign productions, a high prtective .tariff one of the fighting planks of the Federal and State Labour parries at next elections, heavy duties to be placed on all goods that can be manufactured _ the Commonwealth. The whole of the Australian . shipping tc be manned and owned by Australians or Britons only. A clause to be inserted in the Navigation Act compelling owners to Insure the lives of their crews. The establishing of a Federal national bank.' ;AU mines in Australia to be controlled Iby directors within the Commonwealth.