LANG HOOTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 7

LANG HOOTED.

Sydney "Undergrads." Definitely Anti-Labour. TEAR GAS AT MEETING. (Received 12 Noon.) SYDNEY, this day. Uproarious scenes occurred at the Sydney University Union when a meeting was liekl for the purpose of inaugurating a Labour group among the undergraduates. The speeches were interrupted by catcalls, hooting, and stamping of feet, and scores of undergraduates wei'e forced to leave the hall because of tear gnu, which had been scattered by some of those present. The Chief Secretary, Mr. M. Gosling, was frequently interrupted for periods of several minuter. The meeting was definitely anti-Labour. The mere mention 'of Mr. Lang's name brought forth prolonged hooting and boo-hooing. HAS - ALWAYS PAID. NO DANGER OF REPUDIATION. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 21. "Australia not only has the capacity but has the will to pay. There is not the slightest danger of repudiation," said Sir John Kir wan at the Royal Empire Society's luncheon in the city. "Australia has always paid up in full. It is in the best interests that lenders should continue to assist development. Continued refusal might play into the hands of the extremists." TO FIGHT "LANGISM." NEW LABOUR PAPER. SYDNEY, April 21. The Federal executive of the Australian Workers' Union has decided to launch an evening daily newspaper, utilising the idle plant of Labour Papers, Limited. The object is to fight "Langism," which is disrupting the Labour ment throughout Australia. The journal will give wholehearted support to Federal Labour ideals, and endeavour to unite the forces of Labour in Australia.