TAXES ON WEALTH

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1929, Page 15

TAXES ON WEALTH

LABOUR MOTION SHELVED. PROTESTS AT CONFERENCE. London, Oct. 1. A motion thht the Government, in order to alleviate the present widespread poverty, should increase drastically the taxation of the wealthy, was moved at the annual conference, at Brighton, of the Labour Party by Miss Dorothy Jewson, on behalf of the Independent Labour Party. Amid scenes of disorder and loud protests from the Independent Labour Party delegates, the motion was shelved. The object of the proposed taxation was to develop social services and provide children’s allowances. “Princes and princesses have an allowance at birth,” said Miss Jewson. “What is good enough as a principle there is surely good enough for the hundreds of thousands afflicted with poverty.” The Home Secretary, Mr. Clynes, said the Government viewed the resolution with a good deal of sympathy, but he urged that it should not be passed until the trade unions were fully conscious of all its industrial and economic complications. • Mr. J. Maxton, chairman of the Independent Labour Party, was in a very pugnacious mood. Thumping the rail, his raven hair drooping on to his forehead, ho scornfully declined to accept (Mr. Clynes’ “apologies.” He said that the Independent Labourites had raised the matter in 1920, but nothing had been done.