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LABOUR'S INTENTION.
Labour's programme and policy for the coming session af Parliament was outlined by Mr.J. Ramsay MacDonald, Pat & crowded in meeting of the Independent Labour party the Holborn Empire
The situa
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 ST.
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with, but porhan
zmonget the most interesting announcement made that during press for
the session his Majesty's Op position
day on which to resolution dealing with the impoxi debat tion of a capital inry.
Mr. Mine Debald and that when the curtain went up on Taxoday the Labour party would The begin precisely where they left off. eneanployed problem was still unsolved, and they were going to work steadily at it. Demonstrations were all right in their place, bat what they wanted and what the un- wanted was thought: They would
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prosent sys tems wrong; if the system was worked dn't would be produced by anguis unemploy arose of wirdom not brit. Until by the
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Capital and Labour transformed so that it became, and contributing to the co-ordinated in a unified ray, Labour waing capital
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wall being of the community, and the whole working smoothly and in such a balshood way that no inhisidual could starve-be cause his starvation would be an insult and an injury to the community to which be be longed unstripibgment would ever be pro sent. (Hear, Hear).
· EFFECT ON REKT: DÉCONTROL There were two ways in which unemploy mant could be relieved and the first was by the building of houses. In that direction the last Government had done 'practically nothing, and the present Government had to begia where it left off. "You are never going to solve your rent problem, declared
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ker, until you have got the house Letters are lying at this Qfice for The Bensing needs of the population must. be met, and then we can get back ton system of an economic ront." Criticising the on the Rent Restriction Act, Mr. Mine Donard observed: Houses are always more or less of a monopoly to day they are an absolate FOR SALE GRAMAPHONE (Victor monopely. Can you imagine what will be the and Others) 376. Reply to Bax W.N., 0/0 fact of the first section of poople who comenn. Daily Press Office. der the sphere of the
gested rent docontroll
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They went further, and said that when What we have got to do whilst houses come-tax got up to 106, 196, or even 144 in are being built is to press up. (Cheers) the pound, the residuum left in the pocketa To do other than that will be to produce of the very rich was still
sufficiently below a condition of things the like of great to cuable them to show, abominable which you have never known in your extravagancs; and yet, under the conditions Sarees the lives.
You will increase the area of the of taxation, it was impossible to raise What we'
bare got to do is to
taxes. to got very much more from them. at the stagiTO 20 were
blotting them y
taxed for out, When the people had to
riald of seven or nine hundred millions in the long run. (Hear, hear.) Until we
amam no Chaccellor of the Exchequer dis Fould
and even if it is
got back to normál production, tribution, and exchange, the State must
come in and subsidiso certain activities that axely adjust "the weight of the
from the
bottom to
to the top to make them...
oquitably imposed on all classe are essential to the well-being of the downwards.
first duty of community, and housing is one of those Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer," maid activities. That is our policy, and I defy Mr. MacDonald, "will be to pay off a very part of the debt, in anybody to produce drival policy which
is better than that from the point, of large Hnd substanta and in order that |
view of the real needs of the community itself." (Cheers.)
order to reduce
it may be equitably imposed. That means the capital levy, (Cheers.) We intend FRANCE, AND GERMANY."
shall be raised. It is no secret. I have been friends on the front of my Referring to reparations, will of the Wisp Opposition bench, and we have decided to
Mr. MacDonald meeting some described this question as a which was cursing every nation, ant exclud- ask for a day in the new session, so that the
whole
thing will be properly discussed, on ing America. There was no substance-in it; there could be no substance in it. The law of resolution drafted by us, and voted upon by (Loud cheers.) exchange,
the law of national bargaining was the House of Commons. such that one nation could not pay another in When the new Badget comes in we shall see
to it that indirect taxation is dealt with marks or in francs, or in sterling, but only in goods,
Germany
could restore the North of sugar, tea, do-and not merely incume-tax." France and Belgium, not in marks but in (Cheers.) planks, in bricks, in iron, and in labour. The German workmen had come to saxsgree- ment with the French and Belgian workers that they would do it, and it was only the French and Belgian capitalists who were standing in the way. (Cheers) Bo to-day France was in the Euhr. For what for coal! She had not got nearly so much coal as she would have got if she had remained out of the Rubr. For reparations? She was destroying the only source from which reparations could come. She was there for a mere will-o'-the- wish
The theory seemed to be this: Frapes mid, "We have besten Germany, bat if we allow Germany after the war to get into a political or economic position that will enable, her again to become an enemy, then we are
had
undone. If that was the propos
the proposition, what Was Franco, to dot
going
got to keep Germany down for the rest of time until the last tramp blows on the Day of
If that
ayas the thought of
and he sympathised with her as
much as anybody could then she must, year in, year out, so keep Germany down that the Iatter could never rise again." My friends, alonatio did we fight the war to go into a asylum afterwards!" he asko The thing can not be done We offer France security France can ever have Come into the League of Nations heartedly, make it a real democratic our it by making it really of certain Langue, elevate it, respect it and hon-
ad not dependent on the honesty
independent,
that
Powers. That is the only guarantes any mation can ever have that we shall re- main at peace. Bo this session shalli
will be act to oppose France, but wo nao every opportunity that comes our way to convince Farlinment and the nation that that is the only way out of our difficulties back to a condition of economic soundness Andimen
mental sanity, That is what I am out for, and only so far na this can be
advanced
by what we say in this Parliament are wo going to critice the position of the French in the Babs and our own Government's attitude of so-called benevolent neutrality. "TINAKUIAL POLICY,
Referring to the policy of the Labour Party on finance, Mr. MacDonald said they contended that taxation do day was 40 distributed that the rich paid far less. than their share and the poor far more.
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