OTAGO LABOR PARTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 4, 23 May 1914, Page 5

OTAGO LABOR PARTY.

A POLITICAL PROGRAMME. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Friday.

At the meeting of the Otago Labor Council last night methods were adopted for nominating Labor candidates. The political platform was also adopted. Among its planks are the following:— Increase in the graduated land tax and graduated income tax, based on scientific principles, with a super-tax on all unearned incomes; a graduated absentee tax; total abolition of Customs duties on all necessaries which cannot be produced in the Dominion; restricting compulsory training to males between the ages of 14 and 22; reduction of military expenditure by increasing the facilities for training citizen volunteers over 21 years; the prevention of the use of the Arbitration Act to form bogus unions; the Arbitration Court to deliver judgments when making awards, the agreements arrived at by the Councils of Arbitration to be accepted wholly by the Arbitration Court and made into awards, except (such provisions a.s are in conflict with the statute law; further, to make it mandatory that the Arbitration Court shall make an award in every industrial dispute brought before it; the deletion of the "pecuniary gain" clause to enable all wage-earners to have their conditions reviewed by the Arbitration Court, and the full recognition of unionism as a basis of arbitration in industrial law and the consequent membership of all men engaged in industry.