IN OTHER STATES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1931, Page 7

IN OTHER STATES

(From "The Post's" RepresontatWd.) !

SYDNEY, Ist December. '

For months past Mr. Lang has beeaij trying to force His plan, or what' is left of it, on the other State's:' Briefly, hi«< policy is a policy ■of repudiation, ant( the rest of Australia will have nothing to do with it. The New"Soath Wales branch of the Australian Labonr Partjj has broken away from the parent body* and is still, working to ..capture thaj Federal Labour movement. The Bpear* head of the Lang plan offensive, a^ directed from the Sydney Trades Hall^ was recently turned towards South Aua« tralia, and, shock, troops, were .sent taj that State to assist the Lang candidate! in a by-election caused by the deathj of Mr. Gluyas, M.L.C

The Lang, plan supporters regardj Adelaide;; as .their stronghold., outsidaj New South Wales. The South Anstra* lian movement is split into three »ec« tions, and one section recently expelled, not only the Lang plan supporters, bulj the Federal A.L.P. faction as well. Worn the start the Lang plan was supported by the Adelaide Trades and Labour; Council, although it wag denounced by; the Labour Premier (Mr. Hill) and thaf local A.L.P. The Adelaide by-eleetiort recently was won by a Lang supporter. An indication of the muddled state of Labour opinion in South Australia is given, however, by the fact that thai Lang plan advocates have been heckled! by Radicals, who blaan Mr. Lang as well as Mr. Hill for the signing of thai Premiers' Conf er«ace agreement. It is probable that the Sydney A..1/.P,, Will next turn its attention to Wester* Australia, which has not yet' bee^ visited by the teams of speakers whg have invaded the nearest States. Proa minent members of the Perth A.L.P* hava asked that speakers should b« sent. Intensive propagandal has beeqj carried on'in Queensland for month% but Mr. Theodore's home State has bee* hard territory for the invaders. Several large Lang plan leagues "have beejt formed in Queensland; but the Lang advocates have been unable ,to break into the Labour machine. Some of the, leagues in Victoria have endorsed ihaj Lang plan, but little progress has beea made in that State. The fight in the Labour movement is largely a' struggle of Lang v. Theodore; In New J3outh Wales the Lang faction claims to dora< mate the movement, and, although: tl|W A.W.U. is j strongly anti-Lang, Lane supporters are doing their .best to secure the support of the rant sad fil* Of the union. \