Two Labour Premiers
AN OLD-TIME INCIDENT.
MCDONALD AND SCULLIN.
Twenty-three years ago Mr Ramsay MacDonald mounted a platform at Ballarat to support an obscure Labour candidate who had the temerity to oppose the then Prime Minister, -Mr Deakin. Mr MacDonald was visiting Australia as leader of the Independent Socialist Labour Party of England. His protege was Mr J. H, Scullin. Mr Scullin was defeated at the election and probably not one of the 3000 people who attended the meeting, remarks the Sydney • Morning Herald, dreamed that he would one day be Prime Minister of Australia and his supporter elected to the highest British office. Still less would anyone have thought they would be contemporaries in power.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7061, 8 November 1929, Page 6
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116Two Labour Premiers Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7061, 8 November 1929, Page 6
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