DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 125, 20 February 1941, Page 8

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

Leader Reviews Progress

The leader of the Democratic Labour .Party, Mr. Lee, M.P., has returned from* a tour of the South Island, and reported in a statement yesterday very successful meetings. “In Christchurch, Tiinaru, Invercargill and Greymouth, the seating accommodation was not sufficient, and in Runanga, Oamaru and Dunedin the meetings were large and representative,” he said.

At the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Christchurch on Saturday night Mr. Lee talked to a meeting of manufacturers which tilled the hall. Mr. Lee said that the party would shortly announce a large number of names of prospective candidates, though each electorate would not be making a definite choice from this and other lists till later. Special attention was living paid to electorate activity in the Wellington area, ami an organizer would soon be appointed. Commenting on tile merger ot other parties with the National Party, the secretary of the Democratic Labour Party. Mr. F. M. Earle, said: "Ido not think that the man in the street is at present very concerned in political mergers of any description. He is more vitally interested in seeing that this country wins both the war and the peace. So is Democratic Labour."