MR LANG’S BID FOR POWER.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18847, 9 April 1931, Page 9

MR LANG’S BID FOR POWER.

Big Propaganda Plans. REBUFFED IN MELBOURNE. United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received April 8 7.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE April 8. The City Council has decided to re- I fuse the use of the Town Hall for Mr | Lang’s propaganda campaign owing to j Mr Lang’s repudiation of financial obligations abroad. The Sydney “Morning Herald” says | that the Lang Party, having obtained | the sanction of the majority of the | New South Wales Labour Leagues for j its repudiation policy, decided to carry its campaign into other States, with j the object of making its policy that | of Australia. An army of organisers, led by Mr Lang, is going to Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland, to hold propaganda meetings, to secure the support of State branches of the Australian Labour Party. It is regarded as certain —it is even stated positively in the best informed Labour circles—that Mr Lang, if successful, will enter Federal politics, probably by securing the selection for Reid, with the object of obtaining the Leadership of the Australian Labour : Party. Mr Lang’s future depends absolutely j upon the measure of success he • achieves in the Australian-wide campaign. COMRADE LANG PRAISED. ENCOURAGED FROM ENGLAND. United Press Association--By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 7. “Our comrade, Mr Lang, has adopted a jolly good policy, which will give fillip to internationalism,” declared Mr j R. Tait, representing the North-East Divisional Council, addressing the Independent Labour Conference at Scarborough. Some cries of dissent greeted Mr Tait’s statement that Mr Lang was acting on behalf of the workers, many of whom might be relatives of the English workers, but the conference clearly sympathised with his approval of Mr Lang’s policy, and his denunciation of Mr Snowden for consenting to alleged rigging of the Exchange against Australia. Mr Tait acused Mr Snowden of conspiring with Sir Otto Niemeyer in British financial interests, to depress the standard of living of Australian workers.