LABOUR PARTY CONFERS
ANNUAL MEETING OPENED PLEA FOR A STRONGER LEAGUE British Wireless RUGBY, Oct, 5 The annual conference of the Labour Party opened at Edinburgh to-day. Mrs. J. L. Adamson presided over an attendance of about 750 delegates. In her opening address, Mrs. Adamson demanded the abolition of the household means test and criticised the Government's housing programme. Referring to the international situation, the chairman demanded a strengthening of the League. What was needed was readiness on the part of statesmen to act upon the convictions of the peoples they represented, she said. Their chief desire was for peace.
The household means test, which has aroused great opposition, is the name given to the method of determining the amount of unemployment relief payable by ascertaining the individual incomes of other members of the family living under the same roof.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 13
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