OTAGO TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL.
At the monthly meeting of the Otago Trades and Labour Council, it was decided that the following planks should comprise the Council’s political platform : 1. Land Nationalisation. As a means to this that in future Crown lands be disposed of by lease only, 2. The Abolition of Pensions. 3. Cessation of Assisted Immigration. 4. Legalisation of the Eight-hours System. 5. Extension of Hours of Polling to 8 p.m. 6. Progressive Land Tax and Tax on Large Incomes, 7. Local Government Reform. 8. Reform of the Jary Law by Payment of all Subpoenaed Jurors. 9. Government Regulation of ‘Workshops. 10. Reform of the Factory Act, 11. Encouragement of Local Industries. 12. Local Option. 13. Elective Upper House. 14. Seamen’s Franchise. 15. Abolition of Plural Voting.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2417, 31 May 1884, Page 2
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