LABOR EXPULSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 4

LABOR EXPULSIONS

FEDERAL EXECUTIVE DECLARES THEM ILLEGAL Press Awociatiot—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 17. (Received February 17, at 10.20 a.m.) At a special conference of the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party at Melbourne it was decided that the expulsions imposed upon certain members of the party fcy the Sydney Easter conference were ultra vires and could not take effect, and in the event of the members affected d‘String to contest any position at the lorthcoming conference of the New South Wales party they were eligible to do so, because the penalties did not exist under the rules. , State officials contend that the federal Executive has not the power to give this ruling, and that the Labor Party in this State can ignore it. The Labor Council carried a resolution instructing its delegates to the All-Australian Council of Trade Unions to advocate that the council should not even discuss the questfon of representation at the Peace Conference proposed by Mr Bruce until the Federal Government has withdrawn the proposed Industrial Amendment Bill, to which objection is taken by the Labor movement.

A similar decision was readied by a mass meeting of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

HO COMMUNISTS ADMITTED

MELBOURNE, February 17. (Received February 17, at 11.10 a.ra.) The Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party has ruled that no Communists or others expounding Communistic doctrines will be admitted to tihs