BRITISH LABOR CON-FERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 29 January 1909, Page 5

BRITISH LABOR CONFERENCE.

DEALING WITH POVERTY

CHARGE ON UNEARNED INCOMES

TAXING LAND VALUES

£PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! LONDON, January 28.

At the Labor party's conference at Portsmouth, Mr 'Keir Hardie, M.P., presiding, Mr Philip Snowden, M.P., demanded that the cost of dealing with poverty should rest on unearned incomes.

A resolution moved by Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., was carried, opposing increased taxation of the masses and urging a super-tax on large incomes, special taxes an State-conferred monopolies, and increased estate legacy duties, as a substantial beginning of taxation of land values.