The Archive · 1928

BRITISH LABOUR PARTY'S BID

FOR ELECTORAL FAVOURS

Summary of New Programme to Be Placed Before Annual Conference of the Party at Birmingham October Two points of the new statement of the Labour policy and programme ere that The Labour Party is concened.with transforming Capitalism into Socialism. tion of a democratic system of education, adequately financed, free from the taint of class distinctions, and organised as a continuous whole from the Nursery School to the University, And it asks for power both to Jay the foundations of a new social order and to relieve immediate distress, In the sphere of industrial legis lation, the Party will, if granted power, repeal the Trade Unions Act, establish a 48-hour week, improve and extend the Factory ies Regulation Acts, um Wage Acts, and other industrial legislation,

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