NEW LABOUR PAPERS

Grey River Argus, 30 May 1938, Page 2

NEW LABOUR PAPERS

MR J, T. LANG’S PLANS. “WE ARE NEVER DEFEATED." SYDNEY, May 10. “We are never defeated,” said the leader of the Opposition, Mr J. T. Lang addressing a Labour rally at the Trades Hall last night. “We might have reverses, but we progress as a result of the experience gained.”

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for the proposed new Labour Weekly, the Century, which will be published on May 27. The meeting which was attended by union secretaries and Labour Legion members and officials, decided to make the paper the official organ of the State Labour movement.

Mr Lang indicated that the plans of the party were to publish eventually three weekly papers. The first would be the Century, and it would be followed by a Sunday paper to be known as the Sunday Express. The third paper would come later. Arrangements had been made in such a way that if one paper failed the others would not be affected.

Referring to the Labor Daily (now controlled by the industrialists), and the Labour Council’s broadcasting station, 2KY (also under the control of the industrialists), Mr Lang said: "Tn this very hall I asked that the services of the Labor Daily and the broadcasting station should be coordinated. V

“I can tell you that thousands and thousands of pounds were paid to defeat the purposes of the Labour Party.”

Mr J. A. Beasley, M.P., said that

Mr Lang had been attacked because he exercised his debenture over the Labor Daily. The test of Mr Lang’s sincerity was that he had put every

penny he received into the proposed weekly newspapers. No faction would ever get control of the new Labour organ.