N.S.W. LABOUR PARTY FLOUTS FEDERAL BODY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 1

N.S.W. LABOUR PARTY FLOUTS FEDERAL BODY

COMMUNISM QUESTION A PARALLEL OBJECTIVE Reed. 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. The State Labour Conference, after a heated discussion, adopted a motion that while the policy and methods of the Communist and Australian Labour Parties are at variance, the objective of these parties is identical in the matter of the socialisation of industry. The decision means that the State Labour movement has flouted the direction of the Federal body, which has prohibited individual members of the Labour Party from advocating the policy of the Communist Party. The conference also decided that Communists should not be allowed to he appointed as delegates to the conference Avithout first signing the Australian Labour Party pledge. Mr. J. J. Graves has been elected president of the Australian Labour Party. At yesterday’s sitting the newspaper “Labour Daily” came in for a good deal of severe criticism upon a motion to appoint a committee to inquire into its administration and management. Eventually it was decided to convene a meeting of the shareholding unions to devise means to assist the paper.— A. and N.Z. THREAT TO RESIGN PREMIER HOGAN AND PARTY CONFIDENCE RESTORED Reed. 9.5 a.m. MELBO URNE, To-day. The annual conference of the Victorian Labour Party carried a resolution, that the form of retrenchment suggested by the Labour Ministry to apply to workers on the Victorian Railways was opposed to the principles of the Labour Party. After the resolution, Mr. E. J. Hogan, the State Premier, intimated that the decision represented a vote of censure on the Ministry, and that there wa’s no alternative for the Ministry hut to resign. After the decision had been communicated to the conference, the motion was rescinded, and a motion of confidence in the Ministry was substituted.- —A. and N.Z.