NEW AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL PARTY.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 1

NEW AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL PARTY.

SYDXEY, July 10.

A motion favouring the formation of metropolitan branches of the Protestant Independent Labour Party of Australia was carried at a meeting at file Protestant Hall. Afr W. P. J. Skelton, ALL.A., in addressing the meeting, stated that the objective of the new party was:—(l) The common good of the people of the State and ( oniniouwcaltli; (2) the cultivation of a true Australian national spirit; O) the maintenance of Australia- as an integral part of the British Common-

wealth of Xations; d) fa) the aboli

iion of class warfare, holding that “all for each and each for all” should he tho motive of our action, (b) the emancipation of human labour from all forms of exploitation; (5) resistance to control by any ecclesiastical institution ot the legislative functions of tli >

State or any part thereof, and, recognising the evil caused by such control in other countries, it shall bo an unalterable rule of llie Protestant Independent Labour Party that membership .shall .be confined to persons who are of the Protestant faith; ((5) the maintenance ami extension of the State s( 'hool system of education, free and compulsory, and unchangeable opposition to any financial or other support by the Slate in any way to any system of education by private or denominational schools : f 7) the free exercise ot religious worship to be guaranteed within tin' limits of morality and public order, providing that no interference

with the liberty of the subject is practised therein, that no sect shall enact or promulgate any law contrary to, or infringing, any law of the State, ami that State laws relating to industry, health, and all other functions, shall !>-> operative in all activities of any and every sect or denomination, both in religious and industrial spheres; (8) the encouragement of co-operation in primary production and in all industrial and commercial pursuits, and the nationalising o| industries most essential to tli' peoples welfare: >0) the widening of „ the powers of local governing bodies, with the eventual abolition of State Parliament; (Id) (he housing of the people in their own homes.