LABOR SPLIT
DISSENSION IN SOUTH AFRICA
COLONEL CR.IUSSWELL MAY CO OVER. TO NATIONALISES.
H 7 F A by Elec. Tel. Copyright) CAPETOWN, Jan. 2. At a. conference of the Cresswellian Labor Party, . & motion was earned declaring tliat a continuance of the pact between the party and-the Nationalists was no longer in the interests of labor and calling on the oxecutive to terminate xlie» allia/ncp be-? fore next January. Tim motion was carried in- the face of a. strong speech by Colonel Cresswell,' who declared that the termination .of tjici pact before 1934, when the next general election would fall if the present Government'lasted the full term, would be politically dishonest: • It is- not improbable that Colonel Cresswell may solve his personal problem by quitting the Labor Party and declaring himself a Nationalist.. .. .. ... V
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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