LABOUR'S CANDIDATES

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 7

LABOUR'S CANDIDATES

IT. E. COMBS (Welliitgton North) ;, Mr. H, E. secretary of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association. His .defence of his. members against the wage cuts was one of tho ablest performances to the credit of Trado Union,officers in New Zealand, as was' his argument recently before a Parliamentary Committee in favour of the right of his organisation to affiliate with the Alliance of Labour' * » * * F. BARTEAM (Grey Lynn) - Mr. F. Bartram, twenty years ago, was one of the Christchurch Labour movement's best speakers, and thousands have been convulsed by his jocular-ties. For some years he fell put of tho movement for various causes but his victory in Grey Lynn in 1919 showed that he had not lost his punch. ' # * .* *• W. PARRY (Auckland Central) Mr. W. Parry has all his life been a battler for flm workers. In New Zealand he sprang into prominence during the Waihi Strike, dur',ng the course of which he was imprisoned and at the end of which, brutally victimised. For some time he was secretary of the Miners' Federation and the classes of workers ho has helped t G organise are legion. At last election he succeeded in shifting an extremely difficult £iberal and is confident he can hold his seat.

5 ! M. &sßs A%E[^§iicklana'. ? VTest);' I Mr. M J. 'Savage, through good repjort and evil, by Socialist ideals for as long as he could think, ife ha*i beta one "of Auckland's leaning .agitators, winning the minds cf many wo'rkei'S'by his quiet reasoning and sarcastic humour. H's . term in the House has won him many friends. Prior to coming to New Zealand h*was ( a stalwart in the Victorian Labour Party. ■ ■ - " * * ■* * P. FRASER (Welling-ton Central) Mr. P. Fraser who has represented \ Wellington Central since the memor- ; able by-election in" 1918, first entered: the"political. Labour movement hy -joining the LLP., in London. ' Before that date he was active in the land agitation in the north of Scotland.' Mr. Fras-er was secretary-treasurer ol* the Soc'al Democratic Party for three.years, and has been President and Vice-President of the New Zealand Labour Party and is at present on the National Executive of that body. He has also been secretary of tbe Parliamentary Labour Party since 1920. ; "Mr. Fraser is ( a member of the Wellington City Council. ''M3I. 0. McBRINE v (Parncll) . Before - coming to New Zealand some eleven years ago, Mr. Mcßrino was an a'-t-ve member of the Labour movement in the Midlands of England.' Since.' taking : up the toller's burden in New Zealand, Mr. Mcßrine has been very active in the ranks of both the industrial and political

f; ' •.'■... -~ ...... \-J r -'- - i branches of the;!'.--Labour/. . jl-le has been for many years oh th« 'Executive of the* Auckland-','":. Water-.- ." •side Workers, and generally repr*sents that organisation at . ; the-/annual . conference of the Waterside : ' Workers* Federation. Mr. Mcßrine conj tested Eden ilor the' -Labour -Party at the last General Election. . : Jss.Jpj; F ia capable speaker and a past | in. the art of. debate. jho towei;s over his two opponents in jparwell, and if the electors vote for ■ ability and principle combined, Sir. j Mcßrine should capture Parheli" iLabour. !*'';' '~-../■ '' * * * * "'■ '" /J ; -k : : ' i ■- OTHER CANDIDATES £-j" i ■ ■ \ Mr. Mason, who is .Btanding' for - ) Eden, is a lawyer practising at Pukefkohe. Ho was Labour's candidate j for Man akau in 1919. . ■-... . ;; . ; .v I Mr. Jordan, now; standing ,fQ? i Manakau, _ is. a returned soldier \ fought Raglan and -"coredheavily ..for, j Labour at the last election. : .-* ~-.' | Mr. Whibley, the Labour; candidate for Manawatu, is a flaxworker and: (pi j member of the Borough Council >;***-' | Foxton. . •j Mr. A. S. Richards who is flghrthll. | for Hamilton, did good ißrindle at Gisborne in 1919. ! v ' v j Messrs. Purtnell (RoskUl) and ]?. i Way (WaHemafa) have for; many ! years worked in the movement* iti I Auckland. " ■"■'■'