LABOUR WORLD

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1927, Page 7

LABOUR WORLD

COMMUNIST CONTROL. EEARED BY AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PASTY. SYDNEY, Feb. 23. The Australian Labour Party Executive issued a manifesto to the LabourLeagues and Councils, explaining why the Red rules should be rejected by the Party. It states: “There has been a plot by the Communists to secure control of the party, and despite the warnings issued from time to time, the deadly grip Communism is gradually becoming tighter and tighter on the Labour movement. The plotters have been at work for the past four years, and if certain members of the Labour Party have their way the last act will be staged in June at the annual conference of the Labour Party, and the curtain will fall with the Communist members and emissaries in full control of the party and safely entrenched behind a set of rules which will allow no escape from the deadly grip.”

ENGLISH DOLE PAID UP WITH A BAD GRACE.

LONDON, February 22. In the House of Commons, a widespread outbreak of malingering during the coal stoppage, was shown in the supplementary estimate. Mr. Kingsley Wood said an additional £350,000 was required to pay the Government pro portion of tho sickness benefit fund. The total claims amounted to £2,309,000 over 1925. Approved societies referred half a million claims to the medical referees during the stoppage. Forty per ■ ent preferred to lose the benefit rather than submit to examination, while onß \|6 per cent of the remainder were founo incapable of work. 40 hour'week. THE BRISBANE STRIKE. BRISBANE, February 23. The disputes committee of the Building Trades Group Union has written to the Master Builders’ Association, asking the latter to state the conditions under which they would agree to a resumption of work also to state whethi r the master builders would meet the committee in ctinferencc. The master builders discussed the letter but declined to state what action they intended to take. There are indications that the strike is collapsing. HOMES FOR WORKERS. PERTH, February 23. The Premier, in his policy speech, said the Government proposed to maki available £50,000 yearly for building workers’ homes and to proceed to establish a scheme of State insurance. N.S.W. CHILD ENDOWMENT. SYDNEY, February 22. The N.S.W. Assembly read a third time the Family Endowment Tax Bill. Mr. Lang said there would be no additional tax on in-'omes from £250 to £1250. After that one penny extra would be charged by steps of £250. The tax on incomes from £1250 to £l5OO would be 1/2 in the pound. The com panics’ tax would be increased iron

2/6 to 3/-, but it was deliberately put so that, this tax would bo for the ensuing vear only. 'The tax would reveit to what it was before immediately the amount is collected. Mr. Lang said the tax would not bo entirely for child endowment. He expected the increased taxation would bring in between £uoo,000 and £600,000.

A meeting of the Master Builder.-, Association carried a resolution pro testing against the Child Fmlovment Bill. It was stated that -the Bill wov.l.' add at least £3O to the cost of the small home. The New South Wales timber mill lers are already fighting for an exi~t (‘neo, and should another 61 per cent tax be placed on wages, tho timber m dustry of the State would die.