DIRECTORATE ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 9

DIRECTORATE ISSUE

SYDNEY "LABOR DAILY" LENGTHY DISPUTE GOES ON SYDNEY, October 11. The long-standing dispute affecting the right of the Labour politicians Messrs. J. T. Lang and L. Beasley and the prominent unionists Messrs. J. Culbert and T. Bell to act as directors of the "Labor Daily' 'newspaper was decided today by Mr. Justice Long [nnes in the. Equity Court. An order restraining their election as in December, 1936, was granted at the instigation of thirteen unions, whose representatives successfully contested the ballot. Notice of appeal was immediately lodged on behalf of the defendants. Last December, on_ the conclusion of the count of the ballot for the election of directors to the official newspaper of the New South Wales Labour Party, it was announced that the Lang faction had defeated the candidates of opposing unions by more than 800 votes. The result was challenged by the scrutineers appointed by Mr. Lang's adversaries, it being claimed that a number of votes which would have given a different-result had been disallowed. These votes included 500 votes recorded by Mi*. A. C. Willis, a former Agent-General, and 599 votes by the Federated Engine-drivers' and Firemen's Association. It was also claimed lhat 2000 votes cast by the Carpenters' Union, which was in revolt against Mr. Lang, had been disallowed. Litigation was begun, Mr. Windeyer, Acting Justice of the Equity Court, urging another ballot and granting an interim injunction so that the case could be prepared for trial.