AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7972, 8 February 1905, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY.

Its Alms And Aspirations.

Press Association—Copyright. Received February 7, 9.22 p.m. _, Sydkby, Last Night. The Political Labour Conference adopted a fighting platform with the following planks :—Economical government, including the abolition of the .Legislative Council and State Governor"hip; closer settlement for the resumption of estates at the owner's valuation for taxation purposes plus ten per cent: the cessation of Crown land sales: the amalgamation of existing savings banks and the Advances to Settlers' Board into a State Bank; water conservation and irrigation ; free education; progressive land value tax; full civil rights to the Federal State ana municipal em- | ployees; local government cessation of borrowing for the redemption and completion of works already authorised, and undertakings which pay interest from the beginning and provide one per cent sinking fund.

Eeceived February 7,9.41? p.m. Sydney, Yesterday. The Conference carried general resoln.

tions urging the establishment of State sug&r mills, and that not more than 900 square miles be allocated to the Commonwealth Government for a Federal site.

! All proposals dealing with Federal matters have been remitted to a conference op inter-State politicians and trade union delegates to beheld in June next. The are the abolishment of the indirect method of raising Federal revenue by taxing food, and olothine, and the substitution of. a tax on the unimproved yalue of land; antagonism io the importation of alien foreign productions; a heavy tariff on ail goods which can be manufactured in the Commonwealth ; the owning and manning of the rfupping trade by Australians « Batons; the compelling of owners to insura the hres of crews; the establish, ment of a Federal National Bank: the witam (qq Qocomonwealth,