AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4158, 1 December 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED. (By l-'leetric Telegra oh .—Copyright.) \ .-vi.st.-A .Z. Cauie Association, i (.{ctvived Dec. 1, noon.) Sydney, .Dec. 1. .'The-unemployed-in the Metropolis is estimated at 15,000. The Government is. issuing food tickets to 1000 men daily. RAISING TAXATION. In the N.S.W. Assembly, JMr T. Lang, Treasurer, said the new taxation is expected to raise £1,051,000. It provides fo ran increasing supertax on all incomes from 3d to 6d, a company tax f lrom Is to 2s, and an extra.ld on all incomes up to £700. AUTOCRACY OF LABOUR. (Received Dec. 1, 1 p.m.) . - Sydney, Dec. 1. , The City Council® contains a majority of Labourites, whose votes control tlie local legislation, and whose action the Australian Labour Party claims to control. This party now demands the 1 right to select the' Lord Mayor ,aud, against the protest of the Municipal Labour Party, has notified aspirants to the Lord Mayoralty amongst the Laboiir aldermen, that they must lodge applications with the Australian Labour Party. This municipal Labour rule is re--1 sented by a large body of ratepayers, who formed the Civic Reform, Association, with the object of ending, control by the alleged irresponsibles, defending the rights of the ratepayers and securing effective reform. «■———_—— i