FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 11

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

PICTURES IN POLITICS (A survey by the “ Chronicler’s ’ ’ Australian Friday, September 13: filling day fixed for October 12 . . \.JA bulletin from the Federal National.''Party says of Mr Hughes: “Compelled to relinquish the sweets of office? in 1923, he has ever since lived up. to the simile which the late Alfred beakin appliedto him on a previous occasion—‘ the spoilt boy dragged screaming from the tart shop’ . N.S.W. electoral rolls in a shocking condition. Much confusion and impersonation feared . • Saturday: Nothing doing . . . Races at Randwick. New Zealand horses win half the programme . . . Sunday: At the. Domain, the Socialist on the soapbox;said; “Mr Bruce is English in outlook, not Australian; he wears spats of bowyangs. Mr Hughes is a failure as a leader, but a success as a showman. Mr Theodore is a “shrewdy,” and not to be trusted, Mr Scullin is honest, but not big enough for his job. Anyhow, comrades, it doesn’t matter which party gets in, nor whether the Arbitration Act is scrapped or not. Parliaments are out-of-date. They cannot solve the unemployment question. The capitalistic system must be overthrown, and only the revolution will do it.’’ . . The Sunday News tips Labour to gain four seats . . . The Sunday Sun says: “Hughes is full of fight. His eyes have recaptured their old fire. All hi s imagery, all his capacity for verbally thrashing those who oppose him, have returned now that his back is against te wall” . . . Film interests threaten to enter the struggle. Two hundred organisers will conduct the amusement industry’s campaign. It’s case will be s’ated by 150 talking films, XMitaSftWWKftthe imposition of tax, levy, or restriction on the “industry” * /• -j"’ Monday: The Sydney Mofning Herald, in a careful summing up, regards the Government as safe in all States excepting N.S.W. It focusses attention on the real issue of the election — ' the fate of the Arbitration Court . . .

The Evening News: “Labour does not 1 stand for the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. It stand s for direct action, plus the State Arbitration Court, plus the Federal Arbitration Court, for one of the three, for two of the three, or all of the three, as the case may be. Thus it is loading industry with an intolerable burden. Thus it is increasing unemployment’’ . . . Country newspapers report that they have been deluged with inspired literature from the film interests “resembling American shock attack methods of propaganda.” Tuesday: Mr Bruce announces modifications in the Amusement Tax, and Mr Stuart Doyle, the head serang of the picture people, seems to be more annoyed than ever ... Mr V. C. Thompson, a candidate for a N.S.W. ©oUntry constituency, takes off the gloves and fights the picture interests. “Hollywood bosses do not understand nfuch about Australian sentiment. They t-Junk they can stampede the people of this country by an intensive campaign on one issue, which appears to affect their own interests. If picture showmen in my electorate intend to play thp game of the big talkie interests Sydney bydisplaying nightly propaganda on their screens, I will challenge every picture showmen in my electorate to give me the right to appear in their halls and speak for ten minutes in reply” ... Mr Hughes’ amazing contradictions on Arbitration (1921 and are featured in the press . . . The new Australian People’s Party wajj contest only five seats, all in N.S.Wsj It will not oppose the insurgents, Messrs Hughes and Marks. Neither will Labour . , . Wednesday: The president of the N.S.W. Chamber of, Manufacturers, and the president of the Graziers’ Association, declare that their respective bodies are wholeheartedly supporting the Federal Government in its Arbitration policy . . . Thursday: Messrs Bruce, Hughes, and •Scullin have made their policy speeches and now the whirlwind election campaign is in full blast.