NO WIZARD JUST YET

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 8

NO WIZARD JUST YET

Cabled news of the latest round in the Australian contest between the l Labour Moderates and the Labour < Left Wing finds the Moderate cham- ] pion still in possession of the ring, i Both a definition of the issue,, and a ( defiance, are compressed into Mr. Scullin's apt sentence: "People who J want magic must get a wizard." So \ far the Left Wingers have ;* not i brought a wizard into the ring to | throw Mr. Sculliri out of it; their re- ' ported instruction to their Parlia- ( men tary followers to keep away from 1 the proposed Labour caucus seems ! to suggest rather a desire to keep ] outside the ring,.at any rate for the ] present. But! events "will be liable to i alter from day to day, for the cita- j del of all this Left Wing movement 1 is New South Wales; and the mentality of the New South Wales in- ! fluences that are behind the Lang J Labour Government of that State (and which also discipline the : numerically important contingent of New South Wales Labour members of the Federal Legislature) is suffi- ■ ciently indicated by the Lang censure , of the New South Wales Opposition. ■ If Mr. Lang's championship of "the ' credit of the State" were Valid, no ; one would ever be able to criticise , over-borrowing, or say "boo" to an < incompetent Treasurer. It is pathetic to see the leader of a subservient [ majority convert the Parliamentary machine into a means of registering : a motion containing nothing but poli- : tical hvDocrisv.