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LABOR UNITY.
THE NEXT STEP.
A.L.P. Conference.
The negotiations n Sydney which led
to the rapprochement between the offi-
cial Labor party and the Lang Labor
party had been in progress since before
the Federal elections in 1931, when dis-
putes and expulsions followed the intro-
duction of the Premiers' Plan. Victorian
delegates, who returned from Sydney on
Saturday, spoke hopefully in regard to
the prospects of a final settlement of the
dispute when the special conference of
the Australian Labor party is held about
the end of January next.
The secretary of the A.L.P. (Mr. McNa-
mara, M.L.O.), said the conference would
probably be held in Sydney, but the place
and date had not yet been fixed. The
State executives would be consulted in
regard to the matter. Tentative propo-
sals for unity agreed upon between the
Federal executive and the Lang Labor
party would be submitted to the confer-
ence.
A recommendation will be submitted to
the conference that the Lang Labor partv
be readmitted to the Australian Labor
party on giving an unconditional pro-
mise to accept the rules, constitution and
platform of the A.L.P., and to leave to
the special conference its proposals for
the revision of the A.L.P. constitution.
As anticipated it was the West Aus-
tralian delegates, Messrs. Curtin and
Green, M.'s.., who turned the scale in
favor of unity, and it is believed that
the commencement of the war between
Italy and Abyssinia was largely respon-
sible for the decision. A majority of the
delegates on the Federal executive con-
sidered that the Labor party should not
be divided at a time when Australia
might be involved in a world conflict.
Members of the New south Wales
branch of the A.L.P. are now at liberty
to join the Lang Labor party, which will
be represented at the special conference
on the same basis as five other State
branches of the party.
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