POLITICAL LABOUR LEAGUE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 12975, 14 December 1910, Page 4

POLITICAL LABOUR LEAGUE.

Sydney, Dec 13.

One of the chief items on the business paper of the January Political Labour League's conference is a proposal to limit rent by legal enactment. It is suggested that all properties should have a declared capital value and that rent should not exceed 5 per cent, with 1 per cent added for depreciation. It is claimed that this would reduce rents 25 to 50 per cent, and prevent landlords penalising tenants and obtaining from them benefits resulting from Wages Boards' investigations. The movement has been developed because the workers feel that industrial conditions have not improved in apitaof all round increases in wages. Another proposal is that tho State should build houses in 'a wholesale manner and sell on easy terms, borrowing £5,000,000 for the purpose. '-•■■'