LABOUR SPLIT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5

LABOUR SPLIT

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SYDNEY, April 12. Mr Hughes, referring to the split in the Labour Party, said: **I built an ark and invited them to come in, but, as in the ease of Noah, all suggestions and warnings were disregarded. I concluded they had rejected my advice on the coming flood, and so I now let them swim." He added that at present he was not prepared to give his views on the position of the Labour movement.

Labour officials in Sydney think it extremely unlikely thai Mr Hughes will join the new party, as he would not work with Mr Catts, because of the latter's- attitude towards conscription. MELBOURNE, April 12. The split in the Labour ranks, combined with the simmering of-discontent among a section of the Nationalists at his leadership, has led to a revival of the question amongst Labour members in the Federal Parliament whether or not it is possible to inveigle Mr Hughes to again take command and rehablitate the whole Labour movement.