MR. HENDERSON WINS
By-election for Clay Cross Constituency MAJORITY OF 15,000 By Telegraph:—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 8, 7.15 p.m.) London, September 2. The’ Clay Cross by-election resulted as follows: — Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) 21,931 Mr. Moores (Lib.-Nationalist) 6,293 Mr. Pollltt (Communist) 3,434 Mr. Pollltt loses his deposit. Mr. Henderson declared that the result was proof of the declining confidence in the National Government and dissatisfaction with its failure to achieve prosperity and social security. It clearly indicated the workers’ support for Labour’s programme of Socialist planning and reorganisation of economic life, and also approved his continued efforts at Geneva to secure disarmament. Mr. Moores declared that Clay Cross was the safest seat “Uncle Arthur’ could have chosen. The result did not signify any change in the nation’s approval of the Government. At the general election of 1931 Mr. C. Duncan (Socialist) polled 21,163 and Mr Weinberg (Liberal-Nationalist), 11,611.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 9
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148MR. HENDERSON WINS Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 9
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