LESSON OF LAST SESSION
FROM LABOUR PARTY’S POINT OF VIEW. By telegraph.—press Association. Christchurch,- April 5. The concluding paragraph of the Labour Party’s report on the session says:—“Of the Liberals who either voted with Mr. Massey or fled from the Chamber when the throe Labour no-confidence motions were before the House, ’ there were at least twelve who owed their election to Labour support, who could not possibly have been elected if Labour had had candidates in tile field in their electorates. “These Liberals were opposed by Government candidates, and therefore received no 1 support whatever from Government voters, and yet as soon as Labour in the House challenged the Government' they cast thenvotes to save the Government from defeat. . “Th© lesson which the Labour movement must learn from the short session of 1923 is that we must organise cur Labour Party branches in every electorate in the Dominion and. be prepared to enter the field and challenge our opponents of both parties when the next election comes along.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 3
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168LESSON OF LAST SESSION Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 3
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