MUNICIPAL PLATFORM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8750, 26 February 1907, Page 2

MUNICIPAL PLATFORM.

Press Associaticn. Dunedin, February 25.

. The Municipal platform of the Dunedin branch of the Political Labour League is as follows(1) That the minimum wage of 8s per day be paid for all unskilled labour ; (2) establishment of Municipal milk supply ; (3) establishment of Municipal markets for the sale of fruit, vegetables, fish and other necessaries of life; (4) all work undertaken by Municipalities to be executed by the Council without intervention of a contractor, and trade union wages to be paid ; (5) all committee meetings to be held during evenings; (6) that the Council set up a special committee, to which any aggrieved employee shall have the right to appeal ; (7) that the Council frame a by-law instituting a systematic official canvass of the whole city every six years; (3) that the Council establish public baths in a central position; (9) modernisation of public sanitary conveniences for both sexes; (10) that all Municipal positions be publicly advertised before appointments are made; (11) that Councillors be paid for their services.