LABOUR IDEALS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 14

LABOUR IDEALS

EASTER CONFERENCE WIDE VARIETY OF REMITS SOME NOVEL SUGGESTIONS A proposal to have a New Zealander appointed Governor-General when Viscount Galway leaves the 'Dominion, universal military service, the restriction of company profits, and State lotteries. are among the remits to be considered by delegates to the 23rd annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party at Wellington at Easter. The conference will begin on April 10. Among the matters which the conference will consider are recommendations to the- Government for the imposition of stricter health regulations in hotels, restaurants and milk bars: an inquiry into the administration of the Civil Service, toward the removal of officials who unsympathetically administer the Government's policy, and their replacement with persons able and willing to do so. Educational Proposals Under the heading of education, a report is sougiit upon the vocational training of all children over the age of 12 years; the raising of the school leaving age; Plunket work and kindergartens to be State institutions; the abolition of education boards and Bible-in-school teaching; the founding of working-class scholarships in political economy; the teaching of Socialist philosophy in schools. It is proposed to consider and report upon several phases of defence, such as co-operation with the industrial labour movement toward building up a democratic defence force; education of officers and men in the principles of democracy and Socialism; investigation of the New Zealand Defence League's activities; the need for more active cooperation with democratic countries; opposition to the British Government’s pro-Fascist policy. Collective Farms Finance remits include proposals for abolition of freehold tenure; collective farms on Grown lands: the appointment of a Parliamentary committee to investigate the position of farmers who did not obtain relief under the Mortgagors and 'Lessees’ Rehabilitation Act, The conference will be. asked to recommend the establishment of a debtextinction fund; a limit on personal incomes; the raising of no internal or external loans; the principle of debtfree money; an amendment to the Money ‘Lender's’ Act, to restrict interest rates. The proposal relating to companies, urges the restriction of profits to 6 per cent, and the placing of all profits from 6 to 9 per cent, into a reserve fund to stabilise industry, any profits above 9 per cent, to be distributed among the workers.

General items propose the discontinuance of the present practice of recommending persons for titles; the sterilisation of the unfit; and amendment of the law to prohibit the publication of untrue statements likely to have a harmful effect upon the 'Dominion.