POOR LAW FRANCHISE
SOCIALIST TACTICS TO STOP
(“Sydney Sun” Service.)
(Recd. 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 20.
The ‘‘Daily Mail” says: When the Coalition Government in 1918, gave votes to persons receiving poor law relief, it struck a serious blow at sound local administration. Mr. Baldwin’s Government has gradually realised that such persons should be disfranchised, and is preparing a bill for this purpose, also to prohibit the employees of guardians or councillors becoming candidates for any local authority. The bill will further empower the Minister of Health to supersede boards of guardians in certain cases. This is aimed against Poplarism, and shows the Government recognises that the Socialist local authorities are endeavouring to introduce the worst features of Socialism, granting extravagant outdoor relief and seeking to interfere with economic rates of wages by making it more profitable for a man to draw ‘relief and remain idle than to work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1926, Page 5
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