POLICE AND BATONS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 200, 16 April 1932, Page 5

POLICE AND BATONS

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MR LANG'S SPEECH

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Rec. April 16, Midniglit MELBOURNE, Friday. The keynote of Mr. Lang's speeph at the Premier's Conference was the need for suspension of oversea interest payments.. He said that in our present desperate condition, it was not an unfair .request to make. He was reliably informed that . if it were made, it .would he granied. "I warn the Government in all seriousness, that if they attempt to put this wage cut plan intb operation they will continue as a Government only wiih the aid of policemen and batons." he said. "Twelve months ago experts told us that their plan would he the salvation of Australia. I qu'Sstioned their prediction, and here we are to-day as badly off as ever making another plan which aims at doing the same thing. Twelve months hence probably another plan will he treated differently to correct the more unexpected factors and so the farce will continue indefinitely. The Labour movement of New South Wales will have nothing to do with a gypsy ipode of living." Mr. Lang emphasised that £36,000.000 which was ordinarily. sent abroad for inferest should b'e kept here to provide johs for the workers whose desperatp plight was being used to smash wages and industrial conditions.