POLITICAL ADD LABOUR LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7721, 25 January 1905, Page 2

POLITICAL ADD LABOUR LEAGUE.

MANIFESTO ISSUED. (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 24. 'I he Political ami Labour League has (issued a inaniifcsto, hulling iout that the principal object of the league, which is founded, by tile trades Councils of the colony, is. to establish a political organisation of workers and their supporters | with a view to the creatlion of a strong Labour, party in Parliament, I which will yield no allegw.ico to iony political leader other than the j ono cliosen from among hemselves, and the securing of a wider represen)tatioii of labour on municipal and lc»al 'bodies. The , continues : " The necessity for the , league lies In .the fact iliat n,a- . jority in Parliament is opposed not i only to labour legislation ;>ut also t.) the most democratic priuji jnu in our land laws'—namely', -.he nnlion- \ atosal'icm oil' the land. This uiisalis- ! factory result has been brought about not by organisation, l:ut owing to your indifference. 'I he census shows that 63 (sic) out of every 1000 ' people in this colony belong to the .wage earning class." After rcferung ' o the success of J.it:oui" can- , at the elections at Home and m Mo Commonwealth, ti.o iiiuniteto goes onto say: "The Poli|tical and Labour league is oican.sed' i°r reforn,. Come and join I '?■ manifesto is signed bv jHon. John Rigg, as president, „ n j Ball, hon. secretary.