FOR LAW AND ORDER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 11 December 1925, Page 9

FOR LAW AND ORDER.

Labour Dislikes Deportation. BIG SPLIT IMMINENT. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association SYDNEY, December 10. A definite split in the Labour Government is threatened on the deportation issue. Dissension is rampant in the ranks of industrialists on the question whether action should be taken to resist deportation. A special meeting of the Transport Group flouted tho direction of the State Labour Council that a mass stopwork meeting of members of all Unions affiliated with the group should be called for to-day.

The proposal was rejected, delegates declining to carry out the Council’s orders.

This action will be discussed at a meeting of the Council to-night, when attempts - will be made to over-ride the group’s decision, and compel Unions comprising the group to carry out the wishes of the Council. The' defiant attitude of the group is expected to induce some members of the Labour Council to urge the enforcement of the clause in the Council’s Constitution, providing for the suspension or expulsion of refractory Unions.

An interesting feature of the dispute is that the seamen have led the section that favours inaction with reference to deportation, their principal reason being that allied Unions are not prepared to give any guarantees oT support. > The Labour Council is appealing to the Unions for funds to carry on the deportation cases, as there is not enough in hand to continue another day.

DECISION OF THE COURT. ACCUSED REFUSED BAIL. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association SYDNEY, December 10. In announcing that the Court reserved judgment in the deportation case, the Chief Justice refused an application for the release of Walsh and Johannsen, on bail, stating that the decision would be delivered as speedily as possible.