UNITED LABOUR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10606, 12 April 1912, Page 5

UNITED LABOUR

THE FIGHTING PLATFORM.

The following has been agreed to by the Liaibour Party Conference as an immediate fighting platfbrm of the United Labour Party :

The establishment of State ferry services and State.colliers, also that the Dominion Government co-oper-ate with the Federal Gtoveranieait of Australia in the establishment of an •inter-State Shipping Service. Tie abolition of .the country quota in determining Parliamentary repres- . entation. The Parliamentary franchise to apply to the election of all local bodies and to all local polls. Legislation revealing the Osborne judgment as related to New Zealand. The restoration of full political rights to all public employee®. The.Miitiat.ve,. referendum, and recall , on. proper petition and by barema:j\joraty?r .' v - ' pensions for widows, orphans, the blind, and' incurnWy Jielple&s, pd.. State oaf aid and hospital care in all . eases of illness. The Elective Executive. Proportional repreetnation on single transferable- vote. Tlie establishment of a ,State bank, and of the sole right to issue paper j money. j A land system shall be . established j wlhich yhall bring into the .most pro- j ductive use, either by individual undertakings or by public enterprise, I all national resources; shall make ahsentoe owncrs'lrip and private monopoly in land impossible; shall secure to tlie landholder all the values created by him a.iid those only; al! 'fciidi values to be exempt from all taxation; and shall secure to the.public in an annual tax all values created by the public. No further sale of Oro.vn lands', in creased taxation of nd values, the revenue so raised to be used to- reduce the dost- of living'by tlie reduction of Customs taxes on the necessaries of life nox. produced in Now Zealand, and by the reduction tof railway freights and fares. That a free and secular State education system be maintain ed, w ( ith eompulsiory attendance' up to the age'of fifteen years; and that the necessary book::; and stationery be ( ; supplied free by tlie Department.! That beyond the age all boys and j girls not receiving full time instruc- , tion at secondary and other schools j shall attend continuation classes for not las# thair fifteen hours l per week until they reach the age* bf; sei'eiiitefin. flliat- no, employer'shaJr em-i .. play boys or . girls'.undeii* seventeen years of age for more than thirty hours per week. That provision be made so that up to tlie ag.» of 21 years systematic physical exercise .shall be substituted for military drill. The right of the people to decide all questions' .submitted ion a bare majority vote. Establishment by taw of a national auinimum wage. A Right of "Work Act. Establishment c.f competitive State factories, works, and sen-ices. 'The settleimcnt rsf industrial 'disputes 011 the lines of legally established agreements and awards by methods of conciliation and arbitration-

The following additional clause was recommended to the United Labour Plantv ifoir adaption in the platfonn "A (graduated income tlax, based on scientific principles, with a super-tax on u ilea rued incomos.'' The Following' sentence, in the paragraph ire education was referred to the committee set up to -deal with the rompulwory clauses of the Defence Act: — "That provision, be made f>o that ,u<p to the age of twenty-one years systematic physical exercise shall be .substituted for military 'drill."