TAXES ON WEALTH

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 5

TAXES ON WEALTH

LABOUR MOTION SHELVED.

LONDON, October 1

■ A motion that- the Government, in order to alleviate the present widespread poverty, should increase drastically the taxation of the wealthy, was moved at the annual conference, at Brighton, of the Labour Party, by Miss Dorothy Jewson, on behalf of the Independent Labour Party.

Amid scenes off disorder and loud protests from the Independent Labour Party delegates, the motion was shelved. ; - .1

The' object of the proposed taxation was to develop ’ social services and provide children’s allowances. “Princes and princesses have an allowance at birth,” said Miss Jew'son. “ What is good enough as a principle there is surely good enough for the hundreds of thousands afflicted wTTh poverty.”

The Home Secretary, Mr Clynes, said the Government viewed the resolution with a good deal of sympathy, but he urged that it should not be passed until the trade unions were fully conscious of all its industrial and economic complications. Mr J. Maxton, chairman of the Independent Labour Party, was in a very mignaeiotfs mood.- Thumping the rail, his raven hair drooping on to his forehead. he scornfully declined to accept Mr Olvnes’s “ apologies.’ - ’ He said that the Independent Labourites bad raised tbe matter in 1926, but nothing had" been done.