LABOUR PARTY.

Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1934, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY.

DECISIONS OF CONFERENCE. EARLY ELECTION WANTED. CHRISTCHURCH, April 5. That organisations of relief workers would be welcomed into the Labour Party was the decision reached at the annual conference of the Party to-day. It was also agreed that the party would welcome into its membership individual relief workers and all unemployed who believed in the policy and work of the Party. Members were urged to attend meetings of unemployed and to assist them in securing the removal of injustices and investigation of grievances. A proposal to have the constitution of the party amended to provide that a candidate for Parliament should have been a member of the Labour Party for three years instead of at least two years as at present, was defeated.

A resolution was carried directing the executive of the Labour Party and Parliamentary members to secure as full a statement as possible of the receipts and expenditure of the Uhemploymept Board and the subsidies paid by the (board to private firms.

Another remit condemned the administration of the Unemployment Act, especially the action of the Government in ignoring the provisions providing for sustenance payments. Other remits asked for the raising of the compulsory school leaving age to 15 years, the abolition of relief works and the employment of men at present workless on productive and developmental work at standard rates of pay for six hours a day and 35 hours a week, and the abolition of subsidy payments to other than public authorities. It was also decided that the party take every constitutional means to secure an early election, before next November if possible.—(P.A.)