LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19918, 11 April 1928, Page 9

LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.

COMMUNISTIC IDEALS. FEDERAL PARTY FLOUTED, VICTORIAN CRISIS AVERTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 10. After a heated discussion the conference of the Australian Labour Party adopted a resolution to the effect that although the policy and methods of the Communist Party and the Australian Labour Party are at variance the objective of both parties is identical in the matter of the socialisation of industry. This decision means that the State Labour movement has flouted the direction of the eFederal body which has prohibited individual members of the Labour Party advocating the policy of the Communist Party. The conference also decided that Communists should not be allowed to be appointed as delegates to the conference without first signing the pledge of the Australian Labour Patty. Mr. J. J. Graves was elected president of the latter. "•

The delegates to the annual conference of the Victorian Labour Party carried a resolution to the effect that the form of retrenchment suggested *by the Labour Ministry to apply to workers on the Victorian railways was opposed to the principles of the Labour Party. After the resolution had been adopted the Premier, Mr. E. J. Hogan, intimated that the decision represented a v6te of censure on his Cabinet and there was no alternative for it but to resign. This statement was communicated to the conference whereupon the motion was rescinded and a motion of confidence in the Ministry was carried.