REDS IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 13

REDS IN AUSTRALIA.

SOCIALISATION OBJECTIVE.

DIRECTIONS TO MR. LANG

CONFLICT BETWEEN FACTIONS

[FROM Ol'R OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] SYDNEY, Feb. IS.

Althouch the Metropolitan conference of the New South Wales Labour Party has decided to instruct the Premier, Mr. Lang, to makn socialisation of industry an issue ah the next elections, the matter has "O 1 136611 disposed of finally. It remains for the State conference, which will meet at Easter, to lay down a policy which Ml'- Lang must follow. The Socialists have mado.such progress within the movement during recent, months that it is highly probable that, they will capture the Easter conference. If so, Mr. Lang an ill cense to bo the dictator that he is to-day. The main issue before the conference, will bo the acceptance or rejection of the so-called " Payne report," which" is crammed with far-reaching recommendations new to most countries outBide Russia. The adoption of the socialisation plan \ttuild signify the defeat of the faction row in authority at the Trades Hall—tho Graves-Garden group, which has been fo loval to Mr. Lang that it has been willing to make hini a dictator in the Labour movement- " The Socialists go a little too far for Mr. Lang and his friends, or, rather, they are .too outspoken. Mr. Lang knows that, the electors generally are opposed to the establishment of a Soviet, and whatever ho may feel, Mr. Lang would rather be -silent. The " silent and strong" pose is ono most favoured by "Mr. Lang, and .there is a distinct section inclined to be both - jealous and suspicious of him. The struggle for control of the Labour Partv in New South Wales reached a climax when the Socialisation Committeo tried to forco delegates to adopt the - Payne report, the recommendations in which amount to complete _ Sovietisin. • finally, » compromise was arrived at, ana the battle will be resumed at the Easter conference. The first, stop proposed in the plan is " tho capture of political power bv the. working class through the Complete destructipn of the capitalistic State apparatus." " This struggle, says the report. " must culminate in a revolutionary conflict between the classes. The aim of tho working class should, and must, be the complete expropriation of • (he capitalistic class, and in its stead the settinc up of the dictatorship of tho working class, for the puifciose of orgamsinc society upon the basis of socialism. >' We recognise that the problem confronting the worker to-day is not the Legislative Council or the Governor, but the complete seizure of political power. In the event of the Legislative Council and the Governorship being abolished, the economic and social problems arising out of capitalism would still remain '"'solved, and the class struggle will present itscli. We claim our task should not be to perpetuate a delusion tliat Parhamen s can, fn any way, solve the present social piobl6The report advocates that food relief should be left to the management of the Unemployed Workers Gov* Soviet organisation, and not to the Go\ eminent. It asks the couferencc to stand behind the Soviet, which is described as " the fast country, in the world to estab lish the real workers' and peasants Government." Already the Socal.siation croup has received strong support from the miners' delegates, and if their support continues the, Graves-Garden faction will be badly defeated at the Lastei co ference.