TO FACE THE HOUSE
SCULLIN DETERMINED
BEASLEY THERE OR NOT
MELBOURNE, 9th April. Despite tho Beasley group's threat to absent themselves from the House of Representatives next week, the Prime Minister announced to-day that tho Government plans to moot the House on Tuesday regardless of conseqitfßccs. In that event a snap vote trlH involve defeat by ono or two votes.
Mr. J. G. Latham, Leader of tho Opposition, has doclared that the earliest opportunity will be taken to turn the Government out. \
The J. A.;Beasley group in the Federal House of Representatives is a section of Lang sympathisers and supporters which came into active existonee as a result of the Labour Cabinet reshuffle on 2nd March. Its most recent recruit is the East Sydney by-election winner, Mr. E. J. Ward. On 12th March the Seullin Ministry was threatened by a motion of censure and no-confidence, and on that occasion it was saved by the Boaslcy group, which, to the surprise of some observers, decided to keep the Government in power. Though numerically small, the group holds the Government in tho hollow of its hands. Its members are Messrs. Beasley, F. Anstey, Ward, Eldridgc, and Lazzarini.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1931, Page 9
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195TO FACE THE HOUSE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1931, Page 9
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