The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)

Speaks of the King

Insultingly -ul

RELIGION ATTACKED.

WILD LABOUR, ARMY SPEECHES.

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.

The'miners' ' northern president uvu.

Hoare), In the course of an address at a met lng held In Islington Park this afternoon,

form a Newcastle division of the AustralL Labour Army, spoke In Insulting terms of 1

Majesty the King.

Mr. Hoare declared that he always remain seated when "God Save the King" was play' at picture shows. Some people, he said, look at hun as if he were ignorant. The positli

was the reverse.

After thus defining his attitude towards tl British Crown, Mr. Hoare went on to mal some remarks about religion. He said the were those who offered to people in return Í lives well lived a promise of a harp and

pair of wings hereafter. That return would 1 better made on earth. Rather than be : heaven with some of the hypocrites he kne1 who were certain they were going there, 1 wanted to be In hell with investigators an scientists, who had been ridiculed down tl corridors of time by those who were leadir other nien' along the straight and narrow pat

to salvation

Mr. Hoare gave the Labour Anny the Messin of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federa tion, and spoke bitterly of propaganda again! the army by people who claimed to be révolu tionaries, but were simply resolutionarles; H said that if the workers could get togethe there could be only one issue-a fight betwec them and the other section of the communtt; which made up only 20 per cent, of the tots population of Australia.

"This system cannot be mended," Mr. Hoar declared. "It must be ended, but with the leas possible flow of blood."

"The Australian Labour army will becom what the Red army became In Russia," sali Mr. James Kidd. Mr. Kidd further declarei that the Labour army was being formed io the definite purpose of combating the All Fo Australia League. Irrespective of what othe speakers might say, the army was formed ti

fight.

"The Australian Labour army ls necessaril; a revolutionary movevent," Mr. Kidd con' tinued. "The working-class must realise tha' if they are going to light, it will not be b; medium of ballot boxes, but of machine-guns I believe the crisis will become more anc more violent until there is a revolutior brought about by the working-class risinj against economic conditions.

Mr. F. O. Hutt, secretary of the Laboiu army, told the meeting that if Labour wai ever to have a mobile fore« which could bi thrown into action, it would have to be or- ganised on military lines. The proposal waa that each Federal electorate should con- stitute a division of the Labour army to which everybody on the side of the workers could belong, and that then there should be organi- sation Into brigades, and, If numbera per- mitted, into battalions. A grand council would control the operations of the army from

Sydney.

Mr. Donald Grant said that it was his chief desire to persuade the members of the All For Australia League present to turn over and Join the Australian Labour army. It was the business of the Australian Labour army to defend Mr. Lang against the attacks of his enemies. But if the army had to fight lt would also fight for the overthrow of

the capitalist system.

A resolution was passed affirming the New- castle district's sympathy with the objects of the Australian Labour army and the sus- picion with which lt viewed the All For Aus-

tralia activities.

Northern Communists and members of the unemployed workers* movement are opposing the formation of the Labour army. An un- successful attempt was mode thLs afternoon to hold a meeting in support of the militant

'workers' Defence Corps" alongside the Labour army meeting.