N.S.W. ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9

N.S.W. ELECTIONS

MR. LANG'S PROPOSALS

UNEMPLOYED BENEFITS

LEGAL BETTING SHOPS

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SYDNEY, April 26,

The Leader of the State Opposition, Mr. J. T. Lang,, prefacing his policy speech at Auburn tonight, said that as many thousands of unemployed will have to depend on Government relief for a long.time, his party, if returned, would replace the existing dole ticket system with cash payment direct from the unemployment fund, supplemented by special taxation, and an effort would be made to increase payments to unemployed relief workers by 50 per cent. An attempt, said Mr. Lang, would be made to shorten the working week in those industries which were not affected by interstate competition, and influence would be brought to bear on the Commonwealth Government :tb embark on a nation-wide scientific scheme of unemployment insurance. His party would raise the schoolleaving age from 14 to 16 years, making it the responsibility of the Government to see that all youths were established in suitable occupations. IMMIGRATION POLICY. All attempts to revive immigration would be resisted until work and land were found for the State's own people, j Labour would attack seriously the problem of increasing the home market for primary products. It might even be possible to use milk instead of water for making bread. Labour would break up the large estates which were holding back the country towns. In the country centres would be established for the slaughtering of stock for human consumption which would break the grip of vested interests on the meat trade. Property and home owners would: receive protection from a moratorium which would entirely preclude foreclosure, and measures would be introduced for the writing down of mortgage capital to present-day values. Mr. Lang detailed a list of the social services he intended to provide for widows and the poor. He indicated that he intended if returned to legalise betting shops. He proposed also to ask the people by referendum to decide the fate of the Upper House, alternatively whether it should be reformed or made an elective chamber.