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SOVIET AUSTRALIA

SOCIALISTS GO TOO FAR THREE YEARS’ PLAN REVOKED. DECISION OF LABOUR CONFERENCE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, April G. The delegates to the Easter Conference of the New South Wales Labour Party, at today’s session, by 65 votes to 3i), revoked their decision of last evening (carried by 57 votes to 44) to adopt Mr Lang’s three years’ plan for the socialisation of industry. The conference watered down the plan of socialisation to provide merely for the propagation of the aims and ideals of the branch as set out yesterday. Labour members of Parliament will be invited to “exert their energies towards the accomplishment of socialisation.” One delegate declared that the plan as adopted yesterday was impracticable, and would plunge the country into civil war. Another delegate, in a fiery speech, said lie was prepared to give his blood for the cause. Their slogan should be “Sinn Fein.” Still another delegate claimed that the Socialisation Committee had neither brains nor understanding, nor had it the inclination to formulate a practicable plan, of social revolution. Prior to the announcement that the conference had revoked its decision, the newspapers had warned the public what to expect from the plan for the socialisation of industry.

“IMPERIAL BIAS” ELIMIN- , ATION. CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS, (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY This Day. Protests against the continued observance of Empire Day and the flagsaluting ceremony in schools are contained in the report of the Advisory Education Committee of the Australian Labour Party as submitted to the Easter Conference. The Minister of Education, Mr W. Davies, was instructed to revise the schools’ syllabus, eliminating all “Imperial bias” and providing for distraction that would give an “adequate conception of the struggles of the working class in history.” CONFIDENCE LOST. ELECTION TEST DESIRED. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Commenting on the remarks made by the Prime Minister, Mr. J. H. Scullin, at the Federal Labour Conference at Melbourne, to the effect that should the Fiduciary Currency Bill be rejected by the Senate he would at once go to the country, the Opposition Leader, Mr. J. G. Latham, said he had no doubt that that body would reject the Bill. A Hobart message says that Mr. J. A. Lyons, who resigned from the Federal Cabinet recently, stated: “The sooner we go to the country the better. From our standpoint we have felt for a long time that the Government has absolutely lost the confidence of the people of the Commonwealth.”

INTEREST REPUDIATION. SHOCK TO TRUSTEE BONDHOLDERS. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. The “Morning Post's" financial editor says: “A shock has keen given to holders of, trustee securities by Mr Lang's repudiation, and it is scarcely surprising that the general question of the responsibility incurred by overseas Governments under the Colonial Stock Act should have been raised." The paper quotes a correspondent whoasks, apropos of Mr Lang: “What guarantee is there that similar crises will not arise in the future?" He points out that it is manifestly impossible for the British Government to permit a person of such financial influence as Mr Lang, by virtue of. his office, to cause widespread ruin to beneficiaries in what often are small estates, STATE AND COMMONWEALTH. A PERTINENT QUESTION,

(Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 5. In the course of a loading article, lieaded “Australia Thinks Twice,” the “New York Times” says: “In the strained domestic situation between the Commonwealth and New ►South Wales, it i<s to be strongly suspected that the State is not so savage as might appear. One may conjecture that the militant Lang is pleased at heart that there is a Scullin to permit him the luxury of a great gesture of defiance, without incurring the risk of untoward consequences.

“Would New South Wales actually have ventured to refuse to pay the interest on her bonds in the hands of British owners if she had not known that the Commonwealth would intervene and assume her repudiated obligations? Beyond that Mr Lang must have known, as it now appears, that the central Government has the means of reimbursing itself. “ Actually it may be said of the present situation in Australia that, compared with the outlook a few months ago, it is distinctly reassuring. Outweighing the gesture of one State in dishonouring its obligations is the decisive manner in which the Federal Government has spoken out and acted. On the other side today, there is no question as to where Mr Scullin stands.”

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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5

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SOVIET AUSTRALIA Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5

SOVIET AUSTRALIA Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5

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