LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA
*“FIXAXCED BY LIQUOR? TRADE.” COMMUNIST CRITICISM. By Telegraph.—Assn.—Copyright SYDNEY. October 22. Mr J. Howie, leader of the Communist Party, who is also a member of the executive of the Australian Labour Party, criticising the latter for its resolution against the Communists, said that Labour would probably be returned to power at the next elections, but the workers would be no better off as the leaders would be in the hands of the capitalist class. Labour had been financed by the liquor trade for the last five years, but a section of the move-ment-favoured Prohibition. It was a disturbing element for the executive that the Communists stood for Prohibition, because a sober man was more use to them than a drinker. Mr J. S. Garden said that the Communists believed in discipline, and hence would abide by the decision of the Labour executive, but they would take advantage of all channels to permeate the movement with Communist ideas prior to the next conference.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 6
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