FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14256, 6 January 1920, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

FAILURE OF LABOUR PARTY. A SUGGESTED COALITION. WITH FARMERS’ PARTYAN IMPRACTICABLE SUGGESTION

(United Press Association.) Received January 5, 10.20 p.m. BRISBANE, Jan. 5

Mr Higgs, the deputy Labour leader, in "the Federal Parliament, in returning thanks for his election, said the Labour Party bad failed dismally in an attempt to win a majority of seals. The failure was largely owing to the outside executive controlling the Parliamentary Parly and dictating its policy. Some of these men who pre[ended to Too revolutionists were most impracticable and impossible; yet they considered themselves entitled to interpret the Labour platform and dictate its policy. He strongly condemned Labour’s attitude against the referendum proposals and suggested seeking a coalition with the Farmers’ Party in order to meet the new political situation. MELBOURNE, .lan. 5. The president of the Australian Labour Party declared that Mr Higgs’ ■suggestion for a coalition with the Farmers’ Parly was impossible. It meant a compromise, and it was essential that the Labour Party should remain free and untrammelled.

M.3.V/. SENATE SEATS. (United Press Association.) Received January 5, 10.20 p.m. SYDNEY, January 5. Air Duncan won the second New South AVales Senate seat. It appears to ho certain that the third scat will go to Air Gardener, a Labourite, upsc,tincr earlier calculations that the Nationalists would win all the scats. The Labour Party has decided t,o appeal to the High Court in connection with the Ballarat election.