LABOUR SPLIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7

LABOUR SPLIT.

IN NEW SOUTH WALES. THREE PARTIES FORMED. Received August 3, 9.0 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 3. The Federal executive of the Australian Labour Party last night suspended from office all officials and members of the New South Wales executive of the Labour Party, and decided to create a new State executive. Thus there will now be three distinct Labour parties in this State contesting the next Federal election. Firstly, there is the new official Labour Party; secondly, the party led by the expelled executive, which will probably become a new industrial party; thirdly, the Lang nonCommunist breakaway group hitherto mentioned. The reasons for the dissolution of the State executive are: Firstly, alleged disloyalty to the Federal executive, which has an over-riding influence in the Australian Labour movement; secondly, damaging propaganda; and. thirdly, derogatory criticism of Federal politicians who voted with the Federal Government on the National Security Bill. A later message says the Federal Labour Party executive held a further meeting late last night and decided that the suspensions should not become effective until after August 16. On that date it is proposed that the principal officers of the Federal executive, with Mr Curtin and Mr Forgan Smith (Premier of Queensland), shall address the suspended members. Federal officials hope that the majority of the suspended members will then decide to remain loyal to the Federal Labour Party, in -which case they would probably be appointed to the new official State executive.