LABOUR CONFERENCE
AUCKLAND MEETING PROPOSED NEW NAME The 17tK annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party will be held this year in Auckland, opening in the Trades Hall on Easter Monday, April 17, and continuing for the rest of the week. In the absence of the president, Mr. TV. J. Jordan, M.P., in England, it will be necessary to appoint another and four nominations have been received. A wide variety of political and economic questions is dealt with in the 65 remits that have been received for consideration from various branches throughout the Dominion. One branch ■frill move to change the name of the party to that of the New Zealand Socialist Party. Another branch proPoses a progressive reduction in interand that the State Advances Office B hould provide for the establishment of secondary industries. Other proposals j* r e for the. establishment of free kindergartens for children until the time their entry into public schools, the of a five-day working week pf not mofe than 40 hours, for restricting the .profits of industry, and for a labour Three-year Plan," specifying the socialistic legislation which can be ca rried out during the life of Parliament by a Labour Government. 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 13
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