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"Jock" Garden Expelled from N.S.W. Labour. EXECUTIVE'S STRONG ACTION. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. ,T. S. Garden, M.P., was expelled from the Labour party at a meeting of the State Australian Labour party executive last night by 19 votes to four.
Mr. Garden appeared before the executive to explain charges of alleged disloyalty made by hiin at a meeting of the Labour Council in March last. In his defence he repeated many of his allegations, but admitted that certain other charges he had made were capable of qualification.
The executive held that Mr. Garden had failed to substantiate his charges against the president, Mr. P. J. Keller, and the organising secretary, Mr. J. B. Martin, and that the charges were disruptive and likely to impair the unity of the party.
The "Sydney Morning Herald" says of the expulsion: "It is expected it will precipitate one of the biggest crises in the history of the Lang Labour movement which, according to many Labour officials, may result in the overthrow of Mr. Lang."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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