AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'.Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

N.S.W. POLITICS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.j SVDXEV, May 2G. In till probability the election arising out of Mr Lung’s action "ill bo

held at the end of August. Tho official .statement, on behalf of members of the late Government, other than Lang and Willis, says, “that Lang and Willis have destroyed the Labour Government hy this dishonourable and treacherous act. They, alone, arc responsible. Members of the Ministry were kept entirely in the dark about Lang’s proposal to submit the minutes to the Executive Council, for the dissolution of Parliament. They were not made aware in any way that he intended to hand in his resignation to the Government, nor ha.-> he yet informed the Ministers lie has clone so.”

“No doubt Air Lang was presuming to exercise absurd dirtoriul powers, which ' were unconstitutionally conferred on him hy the Seale Conference, and which he had repudiated at the Federal Conference of cc Australian Labour Party, which is the supremo autority of the movement and unanimously declared the decisions of the Seale Conference null and void. At the time when the Federal Executive had been convening a Conference in this State to settle difference- that have arisen. Lang and Wills have acted the pari of destroyers and disloyalists, lie accomplished a result that anti-Labour organisations have been strenuously striving to achieve Mr Lang has ignored and treated 'Mill contempt momkor.< of lilt* Par lin meiii si-ry Party, nut! members of the Cabinet, except Mr Willis, to whom he has always been .subservient and obsequious. This is the final act of treachery, and jeopardises a position which was secured -for Ihe workers of the stale by legislation passed as a result of the work of Cabinet and members of the parly, whom Air Lang is desperately endeavouring to destroy. We arc ftillv confident the Australian Labour Party will 1 tilt in pli and the destructive elements that have brought about this crisis will he utterly destroyed. Mr Mulch (late Afinister of Education) has challenged Mr Willis to contest with him a strong industrial scat at Botany. The new election will he held under the single seats system.

STRIKE CONFERENCE. SVDXEV. May 27

A ■Conference has been arranged for Saturday of parties to the Newcastle coal trimmer,s’ dispute.

OFFICER INJURED. SVDXEV. A lav 27,

As the Union Coy’s steamer Poolta was preparing to leave Port Stephens for Newcastle, the second officer, Talley, had his left foot severed by a loop in a hawser which tightened when the anchor slipped. Lilley was taken by ambulance to Newcastle Hospital, where he is progressing favourably.

PRINTERS’ RESUAIE. PERTH, Mav

Following a Conference between re-

presentatives between Xcwpnper Proprietors’ Association and the Printers' Union, tm agreement was reached to refer matters in dispute to private arTutration. Work was thereupon resttni-