GETTING LIVELY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 9

GETTING LIVELY.

N.S.W. ELECTIONS.

"Red" Speaker "Ducked" in Stagnant Creek. LANG ROUSES INDIGNATION. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The New South Wales election campaign is becoming lively. A Federal Labour candidate, after leaving a meeting at Glebe, . was bespattered with tomatoes by Lang supporters. A Communist candidate, Mr. L. Sharkey, was addressing factory workers in Mr. Lang's electorate (Auburn), when he was knocked off his stand and carried bodily to an adjoining stagnant creek and thrown in.

The candidate's comrade: disappeared before the angry crowd of Lang supporters could catch them.

In a broadcast election speech Mr. E. O. Theodore said that Mr. Lang and his followers were guilty of trickery, intrigue, corruption and terrorism. He had sent the State insolvent and the workers destitute. .Mr. Theodore added that he would not instruct the Federal Labour supporters to give their second preferences to the Lang candidates.

Mr. Lang's references to the law courts during his policy speech have raised a storm of indignation. Leading lawyers describe liis remarks as "infamous and cowardlv."

The "Sydney Morning Herald" says:— "No Communist howling for the overthrow of social onlcr ever said anything worse about the King and the law. Mr. Lang has become the political leper of this country. He desires to contaminate the whole community with his loathsome political disease. His plan to issue debentures for £21,000,000 is both unconstitutional and impracticable."

"The World, - ' the organ of the Federal Labour party, describes Mr. Lang's State currency proposal as "the most wicked and pharisaical trick ever suggested for the hoodwinking of the starving." The newspaper says it amounts, to paper inflation because the backing, apart from being hypothetical, would not amount to anything like £7,000,000 a year for three years from a. shrinking taxable field.

"Moreover," says "The World," "Mr. Lang has no power over the currency iesue. Therefore his proposal is illegal. Good money would leave this State as fast as the banks could make transfers, and the people would be left with bundles of bonds which nobody would negotiate."