DISAFFECTED SOCIALIST.
SIR 0. MOSLEY'S AGENT. JOINING CONSERVATIVE PARTY. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON, Oct. ]G. " I am absolutely sick of tho intrigue and corruption in the Socialist Party," Mr. It. A. Baker, Sir Oswald Mosley's agent at the last election, told a Smethwick correspondent. Mr. Baker has severed his 10 years' connection with the Socialists and is joining tho Conservative Parly. Inquiries in political circles show that dissensions among Smethwick Socialists aro widespread, and personal jealousies are said to be playing havoc with what was one of the principal Socialist strongholds. Wordy attacks by rumour, innuendo, and allegation are frequent. Even Sir Oswald Mosley is not immune. The probability that lie will be given a portfolio in any Socialist Ministry which may be formed is made the basis of criticism, and he is losing ground in his constituency. One woman Socialist who contested a Smethwick ward at tho last municipal election has instituted an action for slander and the case will bo heard at Birmingham Assizes in December.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 15
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