BRITISH POLITICS

Taihape Daily Times, 30 November 1918, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

LABOUR'S ELECTION PROGRAMME i . I WAR TO BE PAID BY LEVY ON CAPITAL —— Received 10.10 a.m. I LONDON, Nov 27. j The Labour election programme tgj fers to Labour's share in the victory, ! and states democratic diplomacy, as expressed in Labour's war aims, has ! been a popular factor in winning the war, and will also be a powerful factor in re-building the world. Labour demands a peace by international co-op-eration, and opposes secret diplomacy and any form of eeonomic war. It demands as an essential part of the peace treaty an international Labour Charter incorporated in the structure of the League of Free People. Labour welcomes the extension of liberty and democracy : in Europe, and demands the immediate withdrawal of Allied forces from Russia. It includes freedom for Ireland, abolition of conscription, of the Defence of the Realm Acts, nationalisation of mines, railways, shipping, armaments, and electric power; free and open education for all; erecting of a million good houses; levy on capital, and freetrade. Labour proposes to pay the war debt by a special tax on capital; also those who rnade fortunes out of the war must pay for it. The programme concludes by pointing out the fact that the greater part o-P the nation had been arbitrarily disfranchised.