A LABOUR SPLIT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 5

A LABOUR SPLIT.

DISSENSION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTER DENOUNCEDBy Telenr&Dh—Press Aaooclatlon-'CopyrlEht Sydney, November 8. The morning papers announce a split in tho JJabour camp, and 6tft.to that -a PTobable result will be the early retirement of Mr. Beeby, Minister for Labour and Industry. Tho principal reasons for the denunciation of him are his attitude towards the Referendum, and the offence lib has given to the unions by his administration of the industrial law, including hjs recent refusal of the Labour Council's request to eliminate the penal clauses of the Industrial Arbitration Act and to guarantee absolute preference to unionists. Tho council hag intimated to Mr. Beeby that, should he obtain Labour nomination at the next election, the Central Executive will not endorse his nomination. CABINET AT LOGGERHEADS. TREASURER SITS ON THE CASH-BOX. Ever since the row in Cabinet about Government House relations havo been more or less Strained between the members of the New South Wales Ministry, according to the Sydney "Herald" of No- ! vember 1. So pronounced have the differences of opinion become that no secrecy Whatever is now observed. The Budget 'has been even a more desperate bone of contention than. 'Government House, Mr. Cann, the Treasurer, has come to the conclusion that the Government Was rushing on to bankruptcy, and: that it was time to ' adopt the Conservative method of closing the Treasury lid. Tho : Treasurer has not only banged the lid hard down, hut is sitting On it, and the evidence goes;-to show that his colleagues: oannot haul him off. Various stories are told about wild. scenes' in the Cabinet over the Budget, Ministers having even gone the length of calling the Treasurer names. Doubti less some of the facts are exaggerated, i But the main fact has ample proof that [ there have been very serious disagreeI ments, and that these disagreements have | extended to the caucus. What takes place there is as a rule kept a profound secret. i But so , acute lias the position becomo' i that complaints are being made, about this, that, or the other Minister all over the place. The stress and worry of it all.is telling : 1 upon the Premier, .Ho has had.enough of it, and no secret is made of this',fact, also. But Mr. M'Gowen has been advised not to relinquish the leadership just now, . however much he may feel inclined to do so. To-day the Premier is not the light-. hearted;, nervy man he was when Lord Chelmsford sent for him two years ago,. Then he Was regarded as proof against all, nerve shocks. - jXow he looks like a. man who needV a rest, and. ought to take it. There ig another, point in the case whiph: probably baa exercised- some influence in Mr, M'G'owen J S decision to Tetain' control, If he resigned tho Premiership his resignation iyould carry theresigna-. tion of tho Ministry. Such an event at the present time Would be ft party cola-, .mity. The quarrels-that now take place Would be nothing to the. row' that would ; ensue in caucus when-it came to-the j ! reallotmeht of portfolios. If there is one thing there as no secret about it ds the . fact that certain Ministers would not bo re-elected by. the caucus! " The: Agent-General some time ago communicated with the- Government asking that the Treasurer might go.to London in order to confer with hint and the London and Westminster Bank people in regard to the raising of, future State loans. This is a trip that Will have to bo settled Shortly If the' Government holds together. Thoro is bound to be more than one candidate for the mission, because there is a chance of whoover'goes slipping Mo when Mr. Coghlari "v'aofttes it. - .