LABOR AND POLITICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10734, 5 April 1911, Page 1

LABOR AND POLITICS.

"■';.. QUESTION OF ■ TAXATION. ' > ,-" (Per Pbess Association.) .."./■ i':' Nelson, -April 1. •Tlris-evening tlie- : Nelson r Branch of the" iAnialgamated, Carpenters and Joiners'' Uinoii•passed the following resolution :—(1) "That the Customs tariff amouhtmg..to an income taxor ds ocl mvtlie--pound- on the wages of working people, while landowners and capitalists with In'income of pay only £d in "the.'pound, is an injustice, so gross ■and shameful' that the workers should refuse, -to. vote for any parliamentary candidate who is not prepared to demand its immediate abolition : y) "That -in the- opinion of this meeting the policy so ahly. advocated by MiArthur Witty, general secretary it the New Zealand Land Values League, ot hot'taxing labor and labor products and taxing land values instead is the only statesmanlike policy before the country —the onlv policv that will bring to all classes of wage-earners the . economic freedom and justice they have so long been denied—and therefore : we call .upon the wage-earners of" every constituency to'close up their ranks, and at the' forthcoming.general election return candidates who will, support Mr Witty s land policy, which is-now the policy ot 'all true-. laborites Tin the. Homeland.