DEMOCRATIC LABOUR
THE PARTY"
• "Some people say we will split the Labour ■ Party. We- will. split it. all right,, but'we will' get the log and Fraser will get' the chip," said Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P.'for Grey; Lynn, at the Town Hal] last 'night when ; addressing a meeting called' by the Democratic Labour Party, . reports the Auckland •''Star." ' ' .. • . *.'■■. ! Mr. Lee said, that 40 branches of the Democratic -Labour Party had been formed and 30 more were in process.of formation. There was an audience of about 1800', the meeting being presided over by Mr. G. Blacker, president' of the Auckland district council of the party. Mr. Lee said that before the end of the year he believed there would be 100 branches of the party in New Zea- j land, and the support of hundreds of young people was being secured. They were people evidently determined to scrap both the old-gangs and' start afresh.- • ' • 1 The speaker said' the citadels of private finance' would fall before the Democratic Labour Party just- as the walls of Jericho fell before the hosts of the Lord. The people, wanted a country free from the cramping hand of the debt system." : v
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 9
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