RECONSTRUCTION REPORT.
(Received Friday, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, Thursday
The Labour reconstruction report includes a minimum wage of 30s, fortyeight hours a week, capital levy to pay off the national debt, an outlay of £300,----000,000 upon a million new cottages, itprogressive elimination of private capital, the State to. bo heir to all privateriches except quite a moderate amount for a, family, no protective tariff, anej. Home Rule throughout the Empire.
Mr Henderson, in a message, says that Labour demands" a League of Nations a* the first step in the direction of creating a League of Peoples. The ultimate guarantee of peace lies iv the repudiation of Imperiulisiii- policies by all peoples. The creation of a League wouldL be a dramatic declaration that the nations of the world form one family.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134038, 4 January 1918, Page 5
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