SYDNEY LABOUR FACTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 March 1936, Page 7

SYDNEY LABOUR FACTIONS

A TRUCE REPORTED (United frees Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 24th March. ' It is reported that a truce has been negotiated in the faction fight between the Garden and Lang forces at the Sydney Trades Hall .over the control of 2KY, the Labour broadcasting station. Mr Garden stated that there had been a misunderstanding, which was now removed and the way was clear for complete unity and success at the next Federal and State elections. The dispute arose when the Lang forces demanded that two of their representatives, including one from a Labour newspaper, should he appointed to the board which controls the broadcasting station. A cable dated 19th March stated that a factional fight in the Labour ranks over the future control of tlie broadcasting station 2KY culminated in a severe setback for the Lang forces, which, since the unity decree between the Federal and State Labour ranks, had sought to tighten their grip on the Labour broadcasting station at the expense of Mr J. H. Garden, who hitherto was practically the guiding hand at this station, hut who, since his elevation to the Federal Parliament, had rarely figured in the affairs of the Lang group. At a meeting of the Labour Council Mr Garden s supporters argued that if 2KY got into the hands of the Lang faction it might not he used in the best interests of Labour. When the vote was taken on the proposal to alter the control of the station, Air Garden’s supporters won by 79 to 64.