LABOUR PARTY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20790, 25 February 1933, Page 17

LABOUR PARTY.

REMITS FOR CONFERENCE. SOCIALISATION PLAN UfiGEp* / , i ' ". r i Suggestions for the socialisation of New Zealand, for a "three years' plan" involving socialistic legislation/ for the reforjn of tho currency syetem, and ftot changes in the education system in* 1 tended to alter the social outlook -ojt the child, are included in the remits which will come before the seventeenth annual conference of the New Zealand Labour party, to be held in Auckland from Monday, Apriji 17. The motion urging the establishment of a committee to formulate a definite plan for socialisation of New Zealand within a given period advocates, that the changed economic conditions "warrant such a committee being set U JP* should examine and report upon the nocessary steps to give effect to that purpose and align its programme to the Parliamentary sessional periods,.- To that end the existing political programme should be superseded by deii- t nite itemised proposals for _ socialised production and direct distribution,. in such a way that the party'a admitted ability to supply the needs of the New Zealand jpeople might be expressed in f&cti* That the title, "The New Zealand Labour Party," should be changed to "The - New Zealand Socialist Parly" is the substance of a remit from th,e Devonport branch. "Three Years' Han." A "three years' plan" for New Zealand is suggested in a remit from the Ohakune branch-of the party. motion asks that the three year plan should make provision for the foHgwing measures, among otheres —(1) Utilisation of the internal credit of the < Dominion to provide money _ for the carrying on of all social services, state departments, and primary and secondary industries. (2) That Goveniineht control: of privately-owned industries be measured by the amount of Government subsidy or- assistance provided. (3) The completion of all unfinished - public works; (-4) Belief works' to ra abolished and sustenance payments made to the unemployed in accordance with . the 1930 Unemployment Act. (5) The ' five-day week and seven-hour dsiy to be put into operation in all state departments and public wprks. The Parliamentary control of publie *pr- ■ vices to be restored by the abolition of the Railway, ment, and Broad -asfinp the positions of other bonnlf. to be investigated with a view to their ultimate j, abolition. (7) The fixation of ptyw* to be instituted■ and (8) IHill civil rights to all publie servants, with the imtyeai- .;.j, ate . Vestoration of the Civil Serviwt "cuts" to those in receipt of less tha* . £SOO per annum. . , Shorter Voiidng W«*. ' A five-day week of not more..thai forty hows is from the Wellington Tradei andl&Miifr , f Council,' whii-li atl.b tl.at a elauw tp tint effect be inserted with % MaHgßMP|p|S| ? roving ths status of the y the provision of more - I The setting up of anotlu>r comndttiw I will be urged fbr the bringing down qf „ , proposals regarding provision for'aneiwployment. and control of tl;e financial, banking, ain< credit cystem, including currency, ■ and tSe "*#•-. j organisation of industry in turadpiatioft ' - with a-achemc tor plainud prodpctsos. A progressive reduction 'of .4ditejrfl#t as one of tho aim* of a win > fnil.control of the Aoter isswi in a remit from the 1 ' ,r '' The l educational -platform «f i will come in for flifcauraiffltt suit of two, "remi%" aim of education frtin tfte of view rather thf.,, machinery to achieve th*t mit from Lower HutJ ttrgep ;<&{! general education policy bfl BO as to omuMin *hn tcqiiis-tivt, acLook of the child; to banish all off acquiring individual "wealth. Mfiti&k' substitute for 4iftt R aollflM^s^ With that Isnd ia view. 1 |henMOugifii money 1 should be Jwk h ' • j pardon s made between systems, instruction, given BuonsSbility of -j,« per discriminating i«'.thjP IVVMuGR 8;S used in, the lower chfflsw gartena, The remit 'MflMrtiHl rrco kindorgartens'ibr JfWjSg U'.ji age of three until the >t««r into primary schools. be voluntary, pgipettto "TOByi j» -SI j t. I givpn every use of the tage should b& research by eoaadtatbtt, fiSMjfIMMMf With eminent psifhologiste and taw*- > w to "" There aw io«T position of natipnai hjws:—'Messrs W. - jf! nedy, P. Lwgstoae, M.P. The eleven nomination? Jo® ] 1 president include th® "*? ■Ci rjJjSs., (■: (Christohureh) and Mr maru). Mr Jame, IWj *$ Mgg srsrsas&.;y