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LABOUR NEWSPAPER IN SYDNEY. thousands lost. (P'ROM OUR OWN COKHESPOKDENT.) SYDNEY, November 17. Another sad chapter of Australia's newspaper history has closed. Tho "World," which started twelve months ago with a great flourish of trumpets on money held in reserve for the purpose by the Australain Workers' Union, is no more. Thousands have been lost in the venture —how many thousands few people know —and now 300 people have been thrown on the employment market with little prospect of being absorbed in the near future. The "World" was never a great success from the very start. For one thing it began its life when conditions gen- ~ orally were all against success. The depression was. at its height on the day it was born.. Its news services were well organised—there was never any complaint' on that score —but the sup- ; port it received advertisers was I meagre in the extreme, sometimes being | as low as four columns on an eight page | paper. It is probable that its circulation was never. greater than 30,000. | Politically it had "backed the wrong horse." Its policy was Labour, but not Lang Labour, and Lang Labour is the onlv Labour force in New South Wales to-dav. It boosted Mr Scullin and his

followers in tie Federal labour Party, and Mr Scullin is anything but poplar . among the true-blue Labour men of Hew South Wales. .Mr ScuUitt was in power when the "World" first offered ltßeir to the discriminating public, but it was not long before:he had lost pOwer. Until -Monday it Appeared- as though : a new paper, 1 the "Star," would taW»,;: the place of. the "'World."; , A Sydney syndicate wm. credited withhaviiig an .< option over tti© -plant >• and nad .actually decided to bring out a new sheet which was to have been sold at the cut rate of one penny. An editor had been appointed and sevgrai * the staff had been paign was instituted and ran .for nearly a week. The "Star" was g&ing to be something different—a paper that everyone would-want to read. It was being rushed with advertisements. Everything, in the garden looked rosy. Then, of & sudden, it was' ; .announced' to the »World'' stiff that there would be no "Star." Hopes had been dashed to the ground in an instant.