SANE LABOR’S REVIVAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 10

SANE LABOR’S REVIVAL.

SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT.

SECESSION FROM EXTREMISTS. SYDNEY, Jan. 25.—There has been a distinct trend during tho last few weeks in the genuine Labor movement towards a clearing out of the extremist element tliat has brought such discredit on the movement, and the swing towards tho old objectives that gave the movement its standing in past years is being referred to by the newspapers as tho “rebirth of Labor. ’ ’ The first important move was taken by the leaders of the Federal and State Parliamentary Labor Parties, in a circular to unions and labor leagues, putting forward proposals for the general cleanup of the movement. For this they were “carpeted” by tho oxlremises in control of the executive of the Australian Labor Party, and to an extent, they had; to modify their views in an explanation. But the incident shows the feeling that exists, especially as most of the leagues immediately endorsed the views of the leaders.

But tho most significant indication of the desire) of the workers generally to dissociate themselves from the “Reds” h the fact that during tho year three of the largest unions, with a membership

aggregating 13,000 withdrew from affiliation with the Labor Council of New South Wales, an. ultra-extremist body that has affiliated with the Moscow international and has done its best to foment strikes upon the merest pretext Tho withdrawals are regarded as evidence that the Council's connection with tho Third International hag alienated the support of most workers, who resent in no mistaken manner the antiTiritish and Continental secret society methods of the Labor Council whereby certain officials became delegates to Moscow.—Auckland Herald correspondent.