LABOUR CONFERENCE
THE FIGHTING PLATFORM. ABi>PTIGN OF PLANKS. (Received January '3O, 10.55 Cm.) SYDNEY, January 31. The Labour Conference adopted the planks for the fighting platform in the- following order: — Constitutional reform, including'the abolition of the Legislative Council, and substituting therefor initiative and referendum, and the abolition of the office of State G'overnor. j Effective land settlement, embrae-! ing the cessation of the sale of Crown . lands. State Bank and taxation of land values. i Nationalisation of. health. ! Providing free medical and nursing services and State maintenance of Hospitals.. ' j Supervision- of dangerous and un- j healthy, occupations. F<xni table industrial laws with .regulation hours of labour and a minimum wage. •Plank 5 favours free secondary, technical and University education, and free school material. 1 . Plank 6 (favours the establishment of State iron-works.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10547, 1 February 1912, Page 5
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133LABOUR CONFERENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10547, 1 February 1912, Page 5
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