CLAY CROSS SEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 237, 4 September 1933, Page 7

CLAY CROSS SEAT.

MR. HENDERSON’S SUCCESS,

LONDON. Sept. 2. The Clay Cross by-election resulted as follows:

Mr Arthur Henderson (Labour) 21,931 Mr Moores (Lib-Nationalist) ... 6,293 Mr Pollitt (Communist) ...... 3,434 Mr Pollitt loses his deposit. Mr Henderson declared that the result was proof of the declining confidence in the National Government and dissatisfaction with its failure to achieve prosperity and social security. It clearly indicated the workers’ support for Labour’s programme of Socialist planning and reorganisation of economic life, and also approved his continued efforts at Geneva to secure disarmament.

Mr Moores declared that Clay Cross was the safest seat “Uncle Arthur” could have chosen. The result did not signify any change in the nation’s approval of the Government.

LABOUR’S REAL MIND

MIJ. HENDERSON’S MISSION

Received September 4, 9 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Observer says that Mr Arthur Henderson’s sweeping majority shows it would have been more prudent and more graceful if the Conservatives had allowed him to be returned unopposed. “Labour has been represented in this Parliament in a fashion not always authentic. Mr Henderson can be trusted to keep the House in touch with Labour’s real mind,” the Observer adds.

At the general election of 1931, Mr C. Duncan (Socialist) polled 21,163 and Mr Weinberg (Liberal-Nationalist), 11,611.