POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 7

POLITICAL.

( TiUiHT TO W01!K. Mr Payne's Hi.yht to \\*ork Mill, wliieh was read a tiivt time yesterday, provoked an ini< resting discussion on the unemployment <piestion. Tin* principal provision of Ihe Dill is that every worker in the Dominion who has been resi- : dent therein for not |e-s than mouths shall have the ri;;ht l<> work, and to receive a minimum living for his hj- her services. who Jiave been in<lUf'd »>r av-isted bv the State to come to Ww Zealand shall have the rieht to work, and shall receive a minimum living wa.L'e for his or her services immediately on arrival at any port in the Dominion. "Worker' is deiined as "any per.-ou who works with hand or brain, or with both.* i lu* deiinitiou of "minimum is a the Mime as the wa.ue awarded by tlie Arliilratiou {'onrt for the same, or similar, servh e> a. worker h is !:• -p. u|' I '. C ti'llkde nf !'• !. 'i'i'ill :." 1 M I'll Ist iN M I ;NT h'!: DKUT. Mr A. U. f'iiidmarsh. M.!\ 'Vr Wei-r-oinii. ha- ir.j: i >.! u-t d (he imprison mint for r-bt Limit;' I \ti!endmeut Dill. Prit : . it pr.«p.;-c., io power to magistrates and judges to i'ahcar civil eases which have readied the

| stage of committal warrants being isJ sued against debtors. Its main proviI vision rcai's; "The court making any I order of con.aiittal under the principal I Act, the Supreme Court, or any. judge I thereof, at any time before the execution of any warrant issued under or ' bv virtue of any committal order, if I under the spcciai i ircuiiistniircs of the purtiuilar case the court or judge thinks j lit so to do, may grant a rehearing of I the application to have siivh committal order made, and in the meantime stay any may at any such rehearing order .and may at any such rehearing order any previous order and any 'warrant issued thereunder to be cancelled."' Air. Himlmarsh also proposes that no court fees shall be payable, in cases of adjournment under his or the principal act. CIVIC IiIdHTS AXD DEFKXCJi ACT. '■ Notice wit" given in the House on Tuesday by .Mr I'. C. Webb (Civy) to ask thi' Minister for Defence whether ;t was "his int eiition to bring down legislation amending the l)c fence Act ill order to restore civic rights to those young men who were opposed to conscription and xrho broke Hie law by absenting themselves from parades, but who bad since, attended parades: and whether he would consider the deletion -of the whole idatise relating to the tos* of civic rights from the Act. A I.'ON TAUAXAKI. "The Tory party liave the idea at the backs of their heads that the countrv is full of loafers who don't, want to work. As a matter of fact, there arc (.wo kinds of loafers who are a, burden on modem society- the. rich loafer who won't work and the poor loafer who won't work. Before we condemn the latter class "we should consider how it has been formed.' said Mr ,1. Payne '(Grey Lynn) when introducing his High t to Work Bill. "We are living in a country where women and children are sweated to death for the benelit of the large land and stock-owner, the financial companies and the banks," said Mr Payne. "J see. an hou. member on my left laughing, he continued, "hut he might be interested to know that what I say is true of his own district." Au lion, member: "\\ hat district is tliat?" Mr Tavnc: "Tarannki. There is a class of 'children there known as the 'skim-milk children,' who are sweated disgracefully." ..*