MEN BEFORE MONEY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 205, 22 April 1932, Page 5

MEN BEFORE MONEY

(Press. Assn.—

mr. lang cheered by big meeting at sydney town hall policy condemned

-By Telegraph — Copyriglit).

Rec. April 21, 11.48 p.m. SYDNEY, Thursday. Several thousands of supporters from industrial suhurhs marched irt a procession and gathered inside and outside the Town Hall to-night to hear the Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, speaking in vindication of his attitude at the recent Melbourne Conference. He claimed that the conference plan amounted to a brazen attempt to destroy the State by reducing wages, thus enabling the Commonwealth, whd had control of the credit system, to jockey New South Wales out of its share of the money made availahle by the banks to the various Governments. The whole end, he said, was. to reduce wages by 40 per cent, take the workers' shilling for payment of overseas interest, and turn the clock back to a period when it .was laid down that the minimum wage should he sufficient to provide the workers with the bare necessities of life. Mr. Lang, amid great cheers, declared: "I say now that there is no necessity and never will be to inflame the people of Australia in the way provided for at the recent Melbourne Conference." . • , The meeting passed a resolutiop pledging itself to stand hehind Mr. Lang and the New South Wales Government in its fight to prevent the degrading of the standard of living;of Australia and against attacks by financial interests, and declared that, in his determination to place men before money, Mr. Lang was right.