NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS

SPLIT IN LANG LABOUR PARTY There is a new movement in Labour politics in New South Wales. The party is already split in twain. The State party, known as the “ Lang is Right Party,” is about to undergo a further division from the rccision or intrusion of the “ Lang is Wrong Party.” The division was inevitable. A hare crossing a road without a dog giving chase to it is always considered a bad omen. The appearance of a fox presaged something in the way of imposture. In politics hares and foxes June always played their part at the opportune time. This intrusion lias nothing whatever to do with tin hares, but is merely the reversion of the human to the wiles of wild life. The State Labour Party, which no longer belongs wholly to Mr Lang, is at sixes and sevens. The socialisation movement is said to be at the bottom of it. Rut such movements are only a means to an end, and are never really intended to be taken seriously, except by the followers of those who originate thorn. In the first instance, the socialisation movement, as it is called, is against the law. The real movement is against the power which has been vested in Mr Lang, and so a new leader is being put forward in the person of Mr Wii-’ lis, recently back from London, having been recalled from the position of Agent-General. He returns to find all the positions held by him before fully occupied, and no immediate prospect of any more offering. There seems to have been no special, election of Mr Willis as leader of the socialisation explosive placed under King Lang’s throne, nor has he openly expressed himself in favour of dethroning the monarch. Yet everybody seems to have made up their mind that he is the man for the job. But is he? He is certainly the brainiest man of the party. To compare Mr Lang with him is like comparing a luminous-watch dial with a radium poultice. Mr. Will's is the hare in the piece. He runs too far ahead. He crosses roads and leaves others standing wondering at the omen. He has never .won « political _ fight. Even the people who are said to favour him—the coal miners—have never given him their votes: Marcs can never attain by swift running what foxes got by cunning ami waiting. The party is breaking, but there will still be a'sound of shouting 1 Lang is right,” even when the king’s throne is toppled in,the mud. It is a gramophone solo. . —Melbourne ‘ Ago.’