General Programme.
1. Constitutional Reforms.
- Amendment of Elections Act.
- Initiative and Referendum.
- Elective Ministries.
- Abolition of the position of State Governor.
2. Industrial Reform.
- Amendment of Shearers and Sugar Workers' Accommodation Act.
- Amendment of Workers' Compensation Act.
- Machinery Act, providing for the inspection of all boilers, only certificated persons to attend to them.
- Statutory Eight-Hour Day where practicable.
- Amended Mines Regulation Act, with provision for better inspection and ventilation of mines, allaying of dust of mines, and election of inspectors by popular vote of miners.
- Amendment of Wages Protection and Lien Act.
- Minimum Wage and Abolition of the Contract System in Government Work.
- State Settlements at which persons out of employment may obtain work as a right.
3. Taxation Reform.
- Progressive Tax on publicly-created Land Values, with £300 exemption.
- Progressive Income Tax, with £200 exemption.
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4. Land Reform.
- Mining on Private Property.
- Equalisation of Pastoralists' and Selectors' Rents.
- No Asiatic, Polynesian, or African aboriginal to hold land in freehold or leasehold from the Crown or private owner.
5. National Work.
- Extension of State Department of Labor.
- Public Control of Water Conservation (artesian and otherwise) and Irrigation.
- Public Ownership, Construction, and Maintenance of all Railways.
- Public Fire, Life, Marine, Accident, and General Insurance.
- Public Crushing Batteries, Smelting and Metallurgical Works.
- Purchase of Mineral Ore and Free Assaying.
- Public ownership of coal and iron industries.
- State manufacture, importation, and sale of intoxicants, with the ultimate view of total prohibition.
6. Education (Secular).
- Elementary, compulsory; higher, optional. Both absolutely free in State schools.
- Technical Education Reform.
- University, free, to all qualifying by examination.
7. Miscellaneous.
- Establishment of Sinking Fund to meet maturing Loans.
- Nationalisation of all Hospitals.
- Public Trust Office.
- Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act.
- Law Reform, including the appointment of Public Defenders.