LABOUR SPLIT IN NEW SOUTH WALES
— -♦ — extremist threat to secede.
I Sydney, June 27. Addressing the Labour Council, Mr. A C. Willis, one of the leaders of the extremists in the recent confcrencv, threatened the formation- of a new Labour Party if the old party ;was not prepared to light for social democracy as advocated by the extremists.—Press Assn^ ("At the recent Labour Conference in Sydney- the real test of strength as between' the moderates, and extremists came when. ill'. A. C. Willis, on behalf nf.the Wollongong branch, moved amotion shall be owneu and controlled by tho establish a- state' of social democracy in which the entire means of wealth production shall be owned and cntrlled by the community of workers industrially organised; and that this objective shall be the issue of future elections." Mr.' Willis said that the kernel of the whole position was that the motion asked the Labour movement in, Australia, to adopt as its .definite objective- the socialistic objective. The motion was lost, the voting beins:* l f oi', 112; Against, 127; and that session of the conference- ended inuproar.']' ,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 235, 28 June 1919, Page 7
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184LABOUR SPLIT IN NEW SOUTH WALES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 235, 28 June 1919, Page 7
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