LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 7

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

QUEENSLAND EXTREMISTS. < DENOUNCED BY PREMIER. EXPULSION ADVOCATED. B.v TeleeranhPress AssociationConyrisrhi. (Received 6.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Dec. 7. Speaking at Babunda, the Premier, Mr. E. G. Theodore, strongly urged the Australian Workers' Union and other unions to enforce discipline against revolutionaries and direct actionists, otherwise it would become impossible for a Labour Government to continue. It would be replaced by a Denham or some other Government. "These men," said- Mr. Theodore, " who have blown in from America and the Southern States are bringing discredit on the whole Labour movement. The Australian Workers' Union has tolerated their white ant methods instead of booting them out." MR. RYAN'S RECORD. ISSUE IN THE ELECTIONS. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. Mr. T. J. Ryan's financial record as Premier of Queensland and the large and increasing number of unemployed there, resulting, it is alleged, from the legislation passed during his regime, are being used as the main weapons in the Nationalist press and by candidates to counter his lavish promises to the electors, particularly soldiers, if Labour be returned to . power. Mr. Ryan's irruption into Federal politics is deeply resented by the Nationalists, who freely charge his desertion from Queensland politics to having made the Northern State too hot for himself.