LABOUR'S SYDNEY DEFEAT.
1» AN OVERDUE HARVEST. A. and N-Z. SYDNEY, Dec. 3. The anti-Labour press is jubilant at the result of the city elections, which they regard as a test of political strength between the Australian Labour Party as "bosses" of the Municipal Council and the State Parliament, and the opponents of that party, and furthermore as an index of sentiment in a possible State election later on. Ftess- and largely, public sentiment is that Labour, as represented through its' Town Hall reaped the overdue harvest of its deserts. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Lambert, attributes Labour's defeat to the Logis'ative Council rejecting the City Franchise Amendment Bill, and having to fight the whole forces of capitalism and a boycott by the "corrupt" press. He added that democracy would not be baulked long of the will of the people. It would see that the obsolete Legislative Council was swept away. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 7
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