ALL READY TO FIGHT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21085, 9 February 1934, Page 8

ALL READY TO FIGHT

AUSTRALIAN FARMERS' TRIALS LANG ADMINISTRATION UNPOPULAR The farming community of New South Wales did not mourn the eviction of Mr J. T. Lang from power, according to statements made last evening by Mr B. J. Stocks, of Linden Hills, Cunningar, a member of the visiting New South Wales farmers' party. Mr Stocks said that the farmers were really deeply concerned for their industry during the time Mr Lang was in power, and were ready to go to almost any length to protect their properties which they considered were endangered by Mr Lang's socialistic legislation. "We were all ready to light, and we would have fought, too," said Mr Stocks. "We all had guns, and had been taught how to shoot straight. It would have meant a lot of trouble if Lang had got in again. They say that a man with something to protect will fight harder than a man with nothing, and I think they would have found that was true."

During Mi- Lang's term of office, paid Mr Stocks, the farming industry was Almost brought to its knees by the legislation introduced. The effect of this legislation was in the main to destroy all sense of security, and even those who had money at that time were afraid to spend it, as they feared that whatever they put it into might be confiscated at any time. "Even a man like me. who had built up out of nothing, was called a capitalist," said Mr Stocks. "But we are all right now. We are moving up slowly but surely."