Rift In N.S.W. Labour Party Intensified
(11.30 a.m.) SY'DNEY, March 13. Week-end decisions by the Barwon and Monaro electorate councils have intensified the schism with the Labour Party over candidates for the coming New South Wales general elections. A full meeting of the Barwon council decided to serve an ultimatum of one week demanding that the Labour Party State executive withdraw its recent refusal to endorse the candidature of the sitting member for Barwon, Mr. R. ,T. Heferen. The Monaro council demanded that the State executive lift the ban on Mr. J. W. Soitfert, the sitting member for Monaro and decided to seek legal opinion on the chances of a court injunction to restrain the executive from operating such a ban.
Political observers regard the dropping of nine sitting members and the growing rift between the executive and the Parlimentary partv as the greatest disturbance in the Australian Labour Partv since the Lang faction fights of 18 years ago.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23201, 13 March 1950, Page 5
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