LABOUR IDEALS.
AUSTRALIAN PARTY'S POLICY.
(Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Mr. J. H. Scullin, the Federal Labour leader, in outlining Labour's policy at the forthcoming elections, declared for the fullest protection of primary and secondary industries. There should be a vigorous overhaul of taxation machinery, unification of State railway, gauges in order to reduce unemployment, abolition of compulsory military training, revision of the Arbitration and the Federal Crimes Acts, the creation of unemployment insurance, the establishment of a Commonwealth Fire and Life Insurance, the restoration of per capita payments "to the States, migration to be checked until employment is fully provided for Australians, the abolition of tax on mutual life societies, and the establishment of Government line steamers with Tasmania. Mr. Scullin deprecated strikes and lock-outs as obsolete and undesirable. Parties to awards and agreements should faithfully honour them.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7
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140LABOUR IDEALS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7
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