LABOUR CONGRESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 7

LABOUR CONGRESS.

FAR-REACHING PROPOSALS. fEenter’s Telegram.) Received January 26, 3.35 p.m. LONDON, January 25. The Labour Conference passed lution in favour of a tax of not less than fiften shillings in the pound on unearned ’-'hcomes to meet the cost of the war. In: nationalisation of the banks, direct taxation of land values in the next budget, adnlt suffrage, and negotiations between trade unions and employees in each industry with * view to the settlement of industrial after-the-war problems. The Conference also demanded bigger war pensions, and decided by 1496,000 to 696,000 against holding an International Socialist Conference, but a motion for a conference of socialists of allied nations was adopted by 1,036,000 to 464,000. A further resolution was carried by 1,697,000 to 302,000 against any immediate peace offer.