EAST SYDNEY SEAT
LANG PLAN VICTORY
(From "The Post's" Representative.)
. o SYDNEY, 11th February. It is certain that if the' United Australia Party had chpsen a stronger candidate for the Federal by-election in East Sydney, the Lang Labour Party would- not have recaptured East Svdnoy. Mr. W. V. McCall, who represented the United Party, is but a very young man, inexperienced in political campaigning. He is cultured, certainly, and has a splendid grip of the problems facing Australia to-day, but ho gives the impression that he has a superiority complex. As such it is hardly likely that he would appeal to the majority of electors in a working class district —a district that has for years been a Labour stronghold. ,The late Mr. J. J. Clasby, who, for the first time, took tho seat from Labour, was of a differ- | put type. He was an ex-soldier, a
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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147EAST SYDNEY SEAT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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