UNITED FRONT MANIFESTO

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 5

UNITED FRONT MANIFESTO

COMPLETE PLATFORM UNITY OF LABOUR Actually a Blow At Official Labour Party. Press Association—Copyright. London, January 17. The United Front manifesto was issued to-day and announces the programme of the recently formed organisation. It includes the unity of all sections of the working class movement, the abolition of the means test, the introduction of the 40-hour week in industry and the public service, paid holidays, higher wages, especially in the cotton, mining and sweate<l trades, pensions of £1 a week at the age of 60 years, nationalisation of mining, control of banks and the Stock Exchange, and making the rich pay for social amelioration. The signatories include Sir Stafford Cripps, Mr Harry Pollitt, Mr W. Gallacher, Mr J. Maxton and Mr A. Fenner Brockway. The Times in an editorial article declaring that the trjple union is really a rebellion against the Labour Party says: "The speciously constructed manifesto does not hide the central fact that the United Front is striking from within and without at the control of the Labour movement.”