ELECTION PLATFORMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 3

ELECTION PLATFORMS

UNITED LABOUR PARTY'S MANIFESTO The United Labour Party has issued an election manifesto setting forth the planks of its policy, as follow:— (a) Constitutional.—(l) Proportional representation; (2) one vote, one value; (3) abolition of the Legislative Council j (4) initiative and referendum; (5) full political rights for all public employees; (6) tho Parliamentary franchise to apply to all local elections and polls. (b) Education.—(l) Maintenance of State educational system—free, secular, aiid compulsory education; (2) election of all education boards on Parliamentary franchise; (3) compulsory attendance to the age of fifteen with provision for instruction in technical subjects and domestic economy. . (c) Land Reform.—(l) All existing Crown lands to be added to tho National Endowment; (2). limitation of area, based on value; (3) tenants' absolute right- to improvement; (4) compulsory subdivision of_ large estates by increased land taxation. (tl) Taxation.—(l) Increase of tho ordinary land tax; (2) a graduated in-come-tax with a super tax on unearned incomes; (3). the revenue so raised to be used for the abolition of duties on all staple foodstuffs and for the lowering of railway freights and-fares; (4) increased death duties graduated to yield a proportionately increased revenue from large estates on inheritance.

(o) Industrial.—(l) State encouragement of local industries; (2) regulation of wage standards, hours, - and working, conditions in all industries; (3) ■maintenance of co-operativo public works; (i) awards under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act only to the granted to industrial unions and workers.-

(f) Monopolies.—(l) A State bank with solo right of note issue; 2) a State ferry service; (3) State _colliers; (4) abolition, or, where that is impossible, public ownership and control of all monopolies; (5) establishment of e State Dcnartment of distribution for the handling of stapla commodities of export and import. (g) Social.—o.) Endowment of motherhood; pensions for widows, orphans, the blind, the incurable, And the helpless, and State medical service and hospital enre in all cases of sickness.

_ fli) Defence. —(lj ■Maintenance of .a citizen army, strengthening of the naval ?nd coastal defences of the Dominion. The upholding of Imperial unity.