WARMING UP

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 131, 28 May 1932, Page 5

WARMING UP

Election Campaign IN NEW SOUTH WALES LANG “POLITICAL LEPER” By Telegraph—Copyright —-Press Assn. SYDNEY, May 27. The election campaign is warming up. A Federal Labour candidate, after leaving a meeting at G'lcbc,. was bespattered with tomatoes by Lang supporters. A Communist candidate, L. Sharkey, addressing factory workers in Mr Lang’s electorate of Auburn, was knocked off his .perch and carried bodily to an adjoining stagnant creek and thrown in. Sharkey’s comrades disappeared before an angry crowd of Lang-ites could catch them. SCATHING COMMENT LANG’S CURRENCY PROPOSALS SYDNEY, Last Night. Mr Lang’s references to the Courts during his speech last night has raised a storm of indignation. Leading lawyers describe his remarks as infamous and cowardly. The Herald says no Communist hoping for overthrow of social order, ever said anything worse about the King and the law. Mr Lang has become the political leper of this country and desires to contaminate the whole com iuunity with his loathsome political disease. His debenture issue for £2,1,000 000 was both unconstitutional and im practicable. The World newspaper, the organ of Federal Labour, describes the State currency proposal put forward by Mr Lang as the most wicked, pharisaical trick ever suggested for the hoodwinking of the starving. It amount* to paper inflation because the backing, apart from being hypothetical, would not amount to anything like £7,000,000 per year for three years from a shrinking taxable field. Moreover, Mr Lang has no power over the currency issues, therefore his proposal is illegal and good money would leave this State as fast as the banks could mako transfers. The people would be left with bundles of bonds which nobody would negotiate.