ARBITRATION COURT.
RESTORATION BY LABOUR.
STATEMENT BY MR. OSBORNE.
For over two hours last evening Mr. A. G. Osborne, Labour candidate for Parnell, spoke to a sympathetic audience in the Nolan Road Hall, Green Lane. He was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. After criticising the Government's policy of "cut, cut, cut," the candidate declared that he could definitely say, on behalf of the Labour party, that if the party were returned, the Arbitration Court would be restored. Not only that, but a general order would be issued making it compulsory for an increase of ten per cent to be made in the purchasing power of people engaged in industry. As opposed to tha present Government's policy of despair, the Labour party's policy was definitely a constructive one. The speaker referred to the decrease in tho number of apprentices, and declared that to-day New Zealand was breeding an army of unskilled workers, many of them with secondary education. In reply to questions, the candidate said thnt under Labour rule the sales tax would be abolished, or placed on a different basis. Tho party would also remove tho wage tax in the case of blind workers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 271, 15 November 1935, Page 12
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