UNITED LABOUR PARTY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2214, 29 July 1914, Page 8

UNITED LABOUR PARTY

DISCUSSION ON COST OF LIVINGr ?■■■'. — : .- 3 At a meeting of the Wellington mam i' branch of the United Labour Party, - Mr. L. M. A. Reardon presided. Therb, t was a large attendance of members. Afl ter the routine business had been dis--1 posed of tho meeting discussed the i question of the cost of living The fol- . lowing resolution was carried, on the i, motion of Mr. C. Lankshear, seconded j by Mr. D. M'Larcn:—''Whereas the steady increase iir the cost of living, is , pressing more and more upon the wages . of the workers, and having regard to the enormous increaso in the profits of '. more land speculators, this branch ot , the United Labour Party demands that ! a plebiscite of the electors bo taken i upon tho issue: That the ordinary laud . tax be increased by 2d. in the pound, [ and.that the Customs duties on tho I necessaries of life bo reduced by the : • amount of revenue so raised." It.wal decided- that Messrs. M'Laren, Rear- ' den, Withy and Lankshear bo appointed to represent the branch in a depuv tation and to act in conjunction nitt' the Cost of Living Committee' of tht Trades Council in placing the matter before tie Prime Minister. It was also decided, on the'motion of Mr. AV.'H. ' Hampton, that a vigorous propaganda on- the subject of the cost of living' should: bo entered upon, and 'that' a card petition be started. A long discussion took placo on the Apprentices Bill introduced by the Government,; and tho following resolution was carried unanimously: "That • this meeting • emphatically protests against the Apprentices Bill now before - Parliament, and, if tho Bill should become law, that' copies of the same bo forwarded to the Labour newspapers in the United Kingdom '■ -