RULING AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 9

RULING AUSTRALIA

SECRET PARTY CAUCUS

EXTREME BITTERNESS

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(Received 15th February, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.

Tho New South Wales Federal and Labour Parliamentarians sat late in secret conclave with the Australian Labour Party executive. Tho proceedings, it is understood, wero marked by extreme bitterness. Tho Ministers insisted that the meeting should be removed from tho Trades Hall to tho Commonwealth Offices, and even the "Labour Daily" was excluded. .Each member of the Federal Party received a typed copy of the Labour Conference resolutions, requiring the Government to commandeer certain mines, to disband and disarm the coalfields police, to prosecute .coal-owners and New South Wales Cabinet Ministers, and give a basic wage in relief to all miners affected by the stoppage. The members were also informed of another resolution requiring the executive to compel them to carry out the "spirit and letter of the resolutions."

War was declared when tho Federal members asked the executive to outline how the demands were to be given effect.

"'" Mr. James, member for the Hunter Coalfields clectorato, repeated tho attack he made on Messrs. Scullin and Theodore in tho House, and challenged his colleagues to move in caucus for his expulsion. Ho declared that tho Prime Minister and Treasurer discouraged miners from creating an inter-State strike and let them down by appointing Mr. Hibble instead of Mr. Willis to sit on tho tribune. "Willis would have had his responsibilities to tho movement, Hibble had none," he said.

Hero the curtain of tho secretary blots out tho discussion.