“EXTREMISTS AND FOREIGNERS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 9

“EXTREMISTS AND FOREIGNERS”

NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT BITTER OUTBURST BY EMPLOYERS

By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. ...S^ ceived 12 30 P m - SYDNEY, To-day. *T is only too manifest that the politics of New South Wales I have reached such a low level that unless the public at the coming’ elections cleans things up, we will be held in contemnt by decent, honest people throughout the world. The policy of a white Australia will be jeopardised if power is allowed to remain in the hands of the extremists and foreigners now controlling affairs.”

outburst appears In the annual report of the Employers’ Federation of New South Wales. The attitude of the Government toward the employers generally has been one of absolute antipathy. Appointments have been made by the various boards and tribunals created by the Government, of men of biased minds, who have feelings of utter indifference to the general interests of the employers and of the whole country.” The report goes on to say that many industries in the State have been badly hit. owing to the Forty-Four-Hour Week Act. Workers’ Compensation, Child Endowment and the Arbitration Amendment Acts. One or two large industries have had to close down, while numbers of others curtailed their activities, and still others transferred to Victoria. International capital was negotiating to open operations in Australia, but owing to the New South Wales restrictions and burdens on industry, the federation had been informed that Victoria was more suitable for opening in than New South Wales.—A. and N.Z.

BITTER ELECTION

DIVIDED LABOUR PARTY DOWNING INDEPENDENTS Reed. 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. An indication of the bitterness between the different factions of the Labour Party which are contesting the forthcoming State elections is shown by an instruction issued by the Australian, Labour Party to Labour supporters, to place the Independent Labour candidates last on the ballot papers when allotting preferences. The decision of the Labour Party to concentrate on the defeat of the independents at all. costs is the outcome of the support given to those candidates in the industrial strongholds.— A. and N.Z.