"HOLD OF GUNS IF YOU CAN"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 82, 16 March 1931, Page 5

"HOLD OF GUNS IF YOU CAN"

I : WILD TALK AT LABOUR CONFERENCE - - - - - - - - U- » "LANG IS IN PERSONAL' DANGER ’ M V "V 'I:. ' Reed. 1 p.m. SYDNEY. This Day. THE Metropolitan Labour Conference yesterday was marked by fiery speeches and wild suggestions that Lang was in personal danger and arms should be taken up to protect him Irony the menace of corps of the Fascist groups, which were , < forming throughout the State.

Donald Grant, the well-known Donain orator, declared: “If you can get guns get hold of them. Ido not say use them, that would be sedition, hut get hold of them.” One delegate was applauded for the declaration that a revolution would be a God-aend. The niaintenance of a White Australia was affirmed as a policy. A 4 ' suggestion was made that a special polled force should be established to counteract the “All for Australia League/’ and the new States movement, and a special committee was set, up to devise means of combatting h’ese. It may report to the Attor-ey-General with a view to ascertainng if the; Government possesses poAver tp. disband organisations working for new Slates, and also the league. 1 • \ ‘ SOCIALIST PROGRAMME Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 9.50 a.m.). S: J . SYDNEY, This Day. most important change in pblicy decided upon by the Labour Conference at Sydney is the recomtpphdatloh to the Easter Conference to jettison the present State objective namely,; the cultivation of Australian phntinlieiit with full results of their Ihtfufctrjf tb all.producers by collective ownership of monopolies and extension, of' industrial economic funot'iofis of ; State municipalities. This is /to be Replaced by a straight-out socialisation of production, distribution and : exchange, and a vigorous c?afnpaign td this end is to be undertaken to counter the anti-Labour agitation. Disciplinary powers over Labour aldermen and others avlio are iix/similar governing positions is to '/be* made more strict. s 7&i ; u -lit* /• ■ •