THE VOICE OF LABOR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 270, 5 April 1911, Page 5

THE VOICE OF LABOR

CUSTOMS AND LAND TAX REVISION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, Last Night. This evening the Nelson branch of the Amalgamated Carpenters' and Joiners' Union passed the following resolutions: 1. That the customs tariff, amounting to an income tax of 3s (id in the £ on the wages of working people, while landowners and capitalists with an income of £IO,OOO pay only one-halfpenny in the £, is an injustice so gross and shameful that the workers refuse to vote for any Parliamentary candidate who is not prepared to demand its immediate abolition. 2. That in .he opinion of this meeting the policy so ably advocated by Mr. Witty, general secretary of the New Zealand Land Values League, of untaxing labor and labor products and taxing land values instead, is the only statesmanlike policy before the country, the only policy that will bring to all classes of wage-earners the economic freedom and justice they have so long been denied; and therefore we call upon the wage-earners of every constituency to close up their ranks and at the forthcoming election return candidates who will support Mr. Witty's land policy, which is now the policy of all true Laborites in the "Homeland."