Arizona republican., 1917-01-03
HUGHES OUSTED AS LEADER OF
 LABOR PARTY
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 MELBOURNE. Australia Jan. 2.- William M. Hughes. the federal prime minister was busted from leadership Of the federal labor party at the re cent party caucus whereupon he left the meeting followed hv 25 supporters with whom he formed new labor party. The ejectment cf MT Hughes were results of the bitter cleavage in the labor ranks in Australia caused by his championiug conscription for the prosecution of the war and his proposals being defeated in the refer endum.
 Not only did Mir. Hughes form a new party, but he formed q new gov ernment from among the = members of the federal parliament who had elected to stand by him in the crisis. ani these new ministers were forth with sworn in by the governor general "f the commonwealth, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson.
 During the campaign over conscrip- . ton. Representative W. G. Higgs, commonwealth treasurer. Representa- tive frank =. Tudor, munster for trade and <customes. and Senators Gar diner and Russell. Assistant Ministers had resigned. and directly after MT Hughes had been depOsed as party leader, Representative King OMalley and Representative Hugh Mahon. min ister for home affairs and minister for external affairs. respectively, like wise resigned their portfolios The personal of the latest Hughes goverr, mcnt is
 Representative William M Hughes. prime minister and attorney general: Senator George r. Pearce minister for fieferse. Representative J. A Jensen. minister for the navy; Representative W. A. Webster. postmaster general; ; Representative A Poynton. treasurer. Representative ". A. Archibald. min ister for trade and customes: Repre- . sentative r. w. Rabford. minister for home affairs, Senator r. J. Lynch minister for public works. Repre- l sentative ". C. Spence. vice president of the executive council; Senator r.. ]. Russell and Representative Laird smith. assistant ministers.
 The faction of the parliamentary la1or party which Fefused to scknowl- edeg NI. Hughes leadership elected MT. Tudor 0ate Mir. Hughes colleague in the cabinet as minister fer trades and customes) it's leader and pro- ceeded to style itself the official fed er;il parliamentary party. 1t also is- sped statement to the press in which it said that among other reasons why | a motion of no confidence in MT. Hughes as inc party leader was adop- ted was because he had ''bri,ndeo these advocating no conscription as traitors in tho pay of Germany, as enenIes of then country and ais bairg ree ponsible for the policy O. the I W. ". iF the commonwealth. These charges. the statement declared, were unfounded and showed Mr Hughes urfitness fO: leadership of the ma l jority of the party
 There are thus two labor parties in parliament each claiming to represent the industrial element in the country The Jnc-that headed by MT. Hughes who is vet prime minister--may be 1 said to be made up not alone of the l proscriptiOnists. but the moderates {: ard the other-that headed by MT l Tudor-eomposed of militant trades unionists. The portfolio of ministers l for external affairs was abolished by l MT Hughes when he formed his gov rerument and the wcrk which had at i tached to that department he divided l between himself and the new minister l for home affairs. MT. Branford The l only members of the old government 1 besides MT Hughes who arc in the
 new one are Messers Pearce. Jensen Webster and Russell.