PARLIAMENTARY RISKS
FORMER LABOUR MEMBERS IN DIFFICULTY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 20. Many of the former Labour members of the House of Commons are in straitened circumstances, and the Party Executive is making “inquiries with a view to assisting the most necessitous cases, though no fund exists for the purpose. Some of the older men, feeling that their seats were safe, gave up trade union positions to younger men, and the reinstatement of the older men is difficult to arrange. A few former members are in actual distress, being unemployed and penniless. In the meantime the party, whose membership has been declining for years, is planning a door-to-door search for members, which is to be known as the “ two million door-stop drive.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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124PARLIAMENTARY RISKS Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 9
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