LABOUR'S OBJECTIVE.
MAKE PARLIAMENT ALIVE. HOUSING AND RENT POLICY. Electric i. eiey^rapn—Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable A^o^iation.) (Received this day, at 10.00 a.m.) Eon do ii; February 12. Air Ramsay Macdonald, speaking at Holborn, said that ]abonr was determined to work steadily for the solution of unemployment. The Government’s housing and rent policy would mean more slums, as people in good houses would be forced tpfind less good ones, owing to the higher rental. The official programme of the Labour Party wins for a capital levy fairer taxation, and 'the continuance of the subsidy for building. The first duty of tho Labour 1 Chancellor of the Exchequer would be to pay off a large part of the National Debt, which would involve a capital levy. “We are going to make Parliament alive,’ ’ declared Air Atncdonald.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 2
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