MORE FUNDS WANTED.
Needed To Back Parliamentary Candidates. MINERS' FEDERATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 13. As a result of the depression in the coal mining industry the Miners' Federation has been faced with the question of providing adequate funds to enable it to have a sufficient number of Parliamentary candidates at the coining general elect ion.
The federation at a meeting Testerday, however, decided to run the same number of candidates an last time, and in order to meet the. expenditure adopted a scheme by which the political fund is to be readjusted, so that the richer districts will contribute to the support of the poorer districts.
Members of Parliament who represent tho minors have agreed on a voluntary reduction of their allowance from the federation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 7
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127MORE FUNDS WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 7
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