THE FAILURE OF LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 December 1926, Page 21

THE FAILURE OF LABOUR.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —As a lifelong Labourite, I am absolutely disgusted with the New South Wales Labour Government's proposal to tax newspapers. It is the most vicious form.of taxation known to economic science. Of course, the newspapers will not pay the tax; it will fall on the public who purchase the papers. Even the poorer class workers take one of the leading dailies and, from this source, the average worker and his wife and family get their knowledge of current events; a. good correspondence column alone ie worth the copper or two. Yet it is left to a bogus Labour Government to tax knowledge. The most Conservative Government that has held office in England for the past two hundred years dare not put on such a tax. . The bogus Labour party, both here and in Australia, do not understand the A B C of the taxation question. We found Mr. Harry Holland and his party advocating Protective Tariffs in Parliament last session—a party which professes universal brotherhood advocating the very thing which has caused so much war and strife, and which has been completely exploded by all the leading thinkers of the wOrld for the last century. Labour's association with the Tory party on the bus regulations is sufficient proof that, bad as the preseut Government is, a Labour Government would be little or no better.—l am. etc., E. STEVENSON.