LABOUR SQUABBLE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 9

LABOUR SQUABBLE

NEW SOUTH WALES MINISTERS,

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, 2n . September. The central figures in yet another little squabble in caucus are the Premier (Mr. Lang) and tho youthful Minister of Education (Mr. Mutch). Tho storm has been long brewing—ever since the struggle, in fact, for party leadership, in which Mr. Mutch all but defeated Mr. Lang for the post of Premier. Mr. Lang is in tho position of not being able to get rid of his critics in the Cabinet, for it is the caucus which makes and unmakes Ministers, and chooses tho Premier's Ministerial colleagues. The group who effectively control caucus aro not likely to substitute Mr. Mutch for Mr. Lang as leader. Tho Minister of Lands (Mr. Loughlin) is about the onl- Minister who could at present defeat- Mr. Lang for tho Premiership, and ho is loyally serving his chief. Mr. Mutch, one of tho ablest mon in tho Labour Party, is tho bestdressed man in the Stato Parliament. He is one of those men who do not believe that a man ought to dress like a Bashi Bazouk simply because he espouses the working man's cause. He has not only youth and ability on.his side, and a big following, but also the comforting knowledge that if he cannot defeat Mr. Lang for tho Premiership, Mr. Lang cannot dismiss him, even if ho wants to.