BRITISH LABOUR CONFERENCE

Southland Times, Issue 17934, 27 January 1917, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR CONFERENCE

DISLOCATION OF INDUSTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright) (The Times.) LONDON, January 25. The Labour Conference passed a resolution calling on the Government to formulate a plan to meet the dislocation of industry after the war, providing that soldiers and munition workers shall be restored to their trades, limiting compulsory arbitration to war time, the establishment of a minimum wage of 30s per week for ail trades and the nationalisation of the mines. The Congress passed a resolution that the Clyde deportations savoured of Prusslanism and requested the Parliamentary party to demand the unconditional return of the deported men. TAX ON UNEARNED INCOME?. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) LONDON, January 25. The Labour Conference passed a resolution in favour of a tax of not less than Iss in the t on unearned incomes to meet the cost of the war, nationalisation of banks, direct taxation of land values in the next Budget, adult suffrage, and negotiations between trade unions and employees in each industry with a view to the settlement of industrial after-war problems. It was decided by 1,496,000 to 696,000 not to hold an international Socialist conference, but a motion for a conference of Socialists of the Allied nations was adopted by 1,036,000 to 4 64,000 The Conference also passed a resolution by 1,697,000 to 302,000 against an immediate peace offer.