AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
UNITY CONFERENCE I .. i MR LANG’S LEADERSHIP i a CHALLENGED SYDNEY. 27th August. | The long prepared for conference be- ! tween the Lang and ITeffron factions I in the New South Wales Labour movement sat during the week-end under the direction of officers of the Federal I Australian Labour Party in an endeavI our to obtain Unity in the party. The conference, by 204 votes to 16fi, rejected a proposal by the Lang party that the conference should continue to elect the leader of the Parliamentary Labour caucus. and caucus was ir.jsiruetecl to meet within a fortnight to j elect its leader. The effect of tills decision was to end the dictatorial powers conferred on Mr J. T. Lang at the 1927 Labour conference. Labour officials believe that Mr Lahg will be defeated at the ballot for the ! leader, and also that the leader of the industrial Labour section, Mr R. Heffron, will not have sufficient support to gain the position.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 3
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