INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY PLATFORM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1099, 27 January 1912, Page 3

INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY PLATFORM.

The following is the platform of the Independent Labour Party as expounded by Messrs Veitch and Robertson M.’s.P. at Palmerston North last' night;—Elective executive ; initiative referendum and recall; no further alienation of Crown lands ; imposition of a graduated laud trx to make large holdings unprofitable; full political rights to civil servants ; bare majority on all questions submitted for decision by referendum no minimum; question of compulsory military training to be submitted to the people for decision. State iron and steel industry to be established ; development of water power by state ; Stale coal shall be retailed from State depots ; centralisation of education to secure uniformity of syllabus throughout the Dominion, and by a system of scholarships to be free from primary to university ; all elections of all public and administrative councils and boards to be by Parliamentary franchise ; State bank with sole right of note issue ; all profits to be applied to ultimate extinction ol national debt ; the qualilying age for old age pensions to fin reduced to 60 years, and all persons of less age totally incapacitated through ill-health or accident to come under the provisions of the Act; economical and industrial history to be taught in all State schools; all public hospitals, receiving and orphan homes to be owned, controlled and maintained by the State; public maternity homes to be established at convenient centres at the requisition of householders.