LABOUR MANIFESTO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 3

LABOUR MANIFESTO.

BY SINGLE TAX LEAGUE. A strong denunciation of a LiberalLabour Government is contained in a manifesto addressed by Mr. Edward T. Evans to the wage-earners of New Zealand. Rise of taxation, increased expenditure, public extravagance, and unemployment are all treated in trenchant language. "Wages will not buy so much now as ten years ago, and in Britain the sovereign will buy nearly twice as much as it will in New Zealand. The one great obstacle to employment is land monopoly." These are examples of Mr. Evans's massive speech. He calls for the establishment of a Labour Emancipation League to demolish monopoly and secure to all- wage-earners "their God-given rights — freedom and the just reward of their toil." On the subject of Customs duties, the manifesto declares that "it would be an advantage to Labour to remove duties now imposed on articles not manufactured in New Zealand . . . not desirable to retain duties on articles universally used when the manufacture of such articles in the Dominion employs only some few score of people." The manifesto recalls the days of village communes, which "worked admirably and made a healthy, strong, happy., wealthy, and independent people." "The more Municipal Socialism we introduce the better it will be for all wealth producers." With a few words in support of '■the Referendum and Initiative" and directions for the selection of a labour leader, the manifesto concliiden.

A farmer told the Dunedin Court one day this week that he could not get men to cut down the Californian thistle on his land even for £1 a day. The impossibility of obtaining necessary labour was also the e.tcu.se in many other similar cases heard by the magistrate on the same day. For Bronchial Cougha take Woods' Qraat Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2a 6d.— Advt.