LABOUR AND POLITICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 89

LABOUR AND POLITICS.

QUESTION OF TAXATION. NELSON, April 2

This evening the Nelson Branch of the Amalgamated Carpenters' and Joiners' Union paj-d the following resolution:— (1) " That the customs tariff, amounting to an income tax of 3s 6d in the pound) on the v. ages of working people, while landowners and capitalists with an income of £IO,OOO pay only Ad in the pound, is an injustice eo gross and shameful that the workers should refuse to vote for anyt parliamentary candidate who is not prepared to demand its immediate abolition " ; (2) " That in the opinion of this meeting the policy so ably advocated by Mr Arthur Witty, general secretary of the New Zealand Land Values League, of not taxing labour and labour products and taxing land values instead is the only statesmanlike policy before the country — the only policy 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 forthcom { ing general election return candidates who will support Mr Witty's land policy, which is now the policy of all true labour-! ites in the Homeland."