THE WEEK'S EVENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 9

THE WEEK'S EVENTS

ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS

INTERESTING REVIEW

SYDNEY, 22nd March. A week of alarums and excursions ends with the Seullin Government still in possession of the Canb§rra citadel, and the coming days promise a lively incursion by the Prime Minister with a camp of troublesome left-wingers whose recalcitrancy has precipitated the Cabinet's difficulties. The Federal Labour Conference will meet at Sydney next Friday, and Mr. J. H. Scullin will attend as the Victorian delegate. The Australian Workers' Union decision to accept the conference resolutions as binding on all Labour Party supporters is causing concern to the Beasley faction, or left-wing section of the Federal Parliamentary Labourites representing New South Wales, whose adhesian to the Lang plan led to their expulsion from the political Eden. FORMER FACTION FIGHT. The position is reminiscent of the" Seale-Conroy faction figlit a few years ago. The Federal Conference upheld the Conroyites, but the Scale followers who supported IJ>. Lang triumphed, and the Conroy faction was wiped out. Mr.E. G. Theodore, Federal Treasurer, now opposes Mr. Lang, whose followers are likely to find him a more astute and a more redoubtable adversary than, were the Conroyites. Moreover, Mr. Theodore, as campaign director of the recent elections, has a good grip of the New South Wales position, aud an inside knowledge of the working of the party machine. Mr. J. A.. Beasley's followers are most bitter toward Mr. Sculliu, and fear that his presence at the conference may be fatal to their aims; therefore, it is believed that the State Australian Labour Party's executive may decide to boycott the proceedings. "ALL FOE AUSTRALIA. 1' In the meantime, the ideal of the " All-f or- Australia/ League to reestablish Parliament as a truly deliberative assembly has caught popular fancy, according to the organisers. They claim that 30,000 members have been enrolled in five days, and the objective *of 100,000 is expected to be reached very soon. The league spokesman discloses that the cost of the split between Capital and Labour far exceeds the National Debt, and that the country's prosperity can only be re-established by a setting aside of personal and political interests and the abolition of the party system. Labour politicians, taking alarm, have urged the suppression of the league as an allegedly Fascist organisation. While denying the latter impeachment, the league's leaders declare that any attempt to suppress it will bo futile.

In the opposing camp the Labour Army sccreiihry is iv communication with all unions, asking that members ho enrolled.