N.S.W. LABOUR PARTY
PLATFORM OUTLINED
REPUDIATION OF I.W.W.
. (Received February 23, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. John Storey 'JLeader of the Labour Party) has outlined the policy of the New South Wales Labour Party. The chief points are an emphatic repudiation of any connection with the 1.W.W., and a declaration that the referendum vote 'Was not only ngainst conscription, but the conscriptionists. Tho party favoured a loan policy for the development of ths country, the establishment of a State bank, with control of private banks, educational and housing reforms (the latter Ito be undertaken by the State and municipalities), full civil and political rights for women, a minimum living wage for women workers, pensions for widows, the reduction of taxes on. income from personal exertion and production of the soil, with a corresponding increase of taxes upon unearned incomes, adhesion to the industrial and arbitration system. 1 • . ; . ■
Mr. Storey stated that tie Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) had received his walking ticket, and was shortly leaving.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 7
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