DIVIDED LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 67, 19 March 1924, Page 9

DIVIDED LABOUR

Tha State- Labour camp is again in the throes of one of its little internecine, wars. There is now a triangular wrangle in which the participants are the politicals under Mr. Lang, leader of the State Opposition; the moderates outside .Parliament; and the Reds, or Communists. Each group is professing to be the champion of the worker, and pacli is condemning the other through the columns oC the Press. The outsider, who sees most of the game, knows, of course, that as long as the Communists continue to fight the political and moderate factions. Labour can never close up its ranks and retrieve its lost standards. The Reds are anathema, to the srreat body of hard-headed workers, but "they fight on, although there is growing more strongly in the Domain every Sunday ardent little forces who are pointing out logically the folly of a creed which is probably all right for Russia but no good for this country. The forthcoming Labour Cor f renc.t will witness another factional soiuggle. In the meantime Mr. Lang is trying to rally the forces of the anti-Reds. His attitude is "that "with every cord of control in the hands of the people, in a country where the millionaire's vote counts for no more in the ballot box than the vote of his valet, there is no need for red revolution, or for bogus Lenins and spurious Trotskys."