AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
LABOUR’S POLICY. United Press Assn—By Electric Telegra ph—Oopyri ght. MELBOURNE, October 5. Air Scullin, Federal Labour Leader. outlining Labour’s policy at the forthcoming elections, declared for the fullest protection of primary and secondary industries. There should be vigorous overhaul of the taxation machinery, unification of State railway gnages in order to reduce unemployment, the abolition of compulsory military training, revision of the Arbitration and Federal Crimes Acts, creation of an unemployment insurance establishment, Commonwealth fire and life insurance restoration per capita payments to the States, migration to be checked until employment is fully provided for Australians, abolition of the tax on mutual life societies, and the establishment of Government line steamers with Tasmania.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10959, 6 October 1928, Page 5
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