LABOUR CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 9

LABOUR CONFERENCE

TAX ON UNEARNED INCOMES

BIGGER WAR PENSIONS

London, January 25. The Labour Conference passed a resolution in favour of a tax of not less than los. in til? £1 on unearned incomes to meet the cost of the war; the nationalisation of banks; direct, taxation of land values; adult suffrage; and for negotiations betiveovi trade unions and employers in each industry with a view to the settlement of industrial afier-the-wnr problems. The conference also demanded bigger war pensions. The conference decided, bv 1,496,000 votes to 696,000, against holding an international Socialist conference ;but a motion for a conference of Socialists of Allied nations was adopted by 1,036,000 votes to 464,000. The conference also passed a resolution by 1,697,000 votes to 302,000 against an immediate peace offer.— Keuter. INDUSTRY AFTER THE WAR London, January 25. The Labour Conference adopted a resolution calling on the Government to formulate a plan to meet tho dislocation of industry after the war by providing for soldiers and munition workers. It further called on the Government to restore the trades union customs and rules limiting compulsory arbitration to war time, and urged the establishment of a minimum wage of £1 10s. per week in all trades, and the na-' tionalisation of the mines.—"The Times." TASTE OF PRUSSIANISM London, January 25. The Labour Congress -passed a resolution that the deportations of Clyde workmen savoured of Prussianism, and requested the Parliamentary Party to demand the unconditional return of the deported people.—Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assn. A JOINT COMMITTEE ... 1 London, January 25. Mr. J. Hodge (Minister of Labour) is forming a committee of employers and employees and five hundred local committees to deal with employment after the war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable "Assn.