LANG SCARIFIED

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 129, 26 May 1932, Page 5

LANG SCARIFIED

By Federal Labour ■ > NEW SOUTH WALES ? V • ’ HAS THREE OPTIONS SYDNEY, Last Night. Mr Coates, Leader of the Federal Australian Labour Party Forces in the Now South Wales State elections, in a broadcast policy speech, said New South Wales was to-day at the crossroads of political destiny. Three alternative roads, might he taken —the road back represented by the policy of the United Australia Party, tho road leading to a blind alley represented by the Lang party, or tho road upwards to wards social justice and. tho preservation of Australian industries indicated by the Australian Labour Party’s policy.

Mr Coates attacked the Lang Government for “its policy of intimidation and victimisation, repudiation, treachery and misrepresentation, industrial repression and tyranny.” He said: “We find no inspiration or hope in the policy represented by the United Australia Party. Wo believe in the maintenance of widows’ pensions, family endowments, and the restoration as soon as possible of theses wage standards in the public service which the Lang Government promised. to restore. We will fight for a system of unemployment relief whereby payment in cash is substituted for the present dole.” '

Mr Coates advocated the reduction of all interest charges by 224 per cent, and the continuation of the Moratorium Act.