A LABOR PLATFORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 27, 23 May 1914, Page 3

A LABOR PLATFORM.

THE OTAGO COUNCH.. [Per Press Association.] Dunedin, May 22. A meeting of the Otago Label* Council was held last night. Me mods were adopted for nominating La Dor candidates, and the political platform was also adopted. Among its paints are tiie following: Increase in I lie graduated land talc am! graduated inti mo tax based on scientific principles,, with a supertax on all linear ml incomes, a graduated absentee tat j total abolition of the Cnstome duties c n all necessaries which cannot no i reduced in the Dominion; restrictions of compulsory training to males between the ages of 14 and 22; reduction of military expenditure by ■ increasing .the facilities for training citiy.eh-volnn-teel's over 21; prevention of the use of the Arbitration Act to for n bogus unions, the Arbitration Court to deliver judgment when making awards, agreements arrived at bv Councils of conciliation to be acceptt 1 wholly by the Arbitration Court and made into awards except such provisions as are in conflict with statute law further than to make it mandatory that the Arbitraion Court shall make an award in every industrial dispute brought before it; deletion of “pecuniary gain” danse to enable all wage-earners to bAvo their conditions reviewed b\ the Arbitration Court; full recognition of unionism as a basis of aroitration in industrial law, and consequent membership of all men engaged in the industry.