THE LABOR CONFERENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4458, 27 January 1917, Page 5

THE LABOR CONFERENCE.

INTERESTING WAR QUESTIONS

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LONDON, Jan. 25

The Labor Conference passed a resolution calling on the Government to formulate a plan to meet the dislocation of industry after the war, providing that soldiers and munition workers shall be restored to their trade union customs and rules limiting compulsory arbitration to war time, the establishment of minimum wage of 39; for all trades, and nationalisation of the mines.

The Conference passed a resolution in favour of a tax of not less than 15-j in the pound on unearned incomes to meet the cost of the- war; the .nationalisation of banks: and direct taxation of land value.-; in the next Budget; adult suffrage, and negotiations between trade unions and employees in each industry with a view to tho settlement of industrial cfter-the-v.ar problems. . • The Conference also demanded bigger war pensions, it v.as decided cy 1,496,600 to 696,000 against- holding an international Socialist conference? but a motion for a conference of Sc'i a lists of Allied Natron;; was adopted by 1,036.609 to 464,000. , . The- Congress passed a resolution that- the Clyde deportations savored of Prussian ism and requeste d the Pr,fJiamentary party to demand the unconditional return of the deper tea men.