LABOUR DISUNITY.
MEETING: OF TH£ PARTY. MR. HENDERSON CRITICISED. INSUBORDINATE MEMBERS. £* By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright./ LONDON, Sept. 22. Mr. Henderson met a series of backbench criticisms at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party with the declaration that if he were to remain as leader he must insist on a united party. Mr. Henderson referred particularly to the division on the Gold Standard Amendment Bill, when the back-bench members moved amendments, in spite of Mr. Henderson's statement that the Labour Party would not oppose the bill. Mr. Henderson emphatically denied, that there had been any negotiations with a view to his joining the Government. Miss Susan Lawrence, member for East Ham North, was the severest critic of the front-bench members. She said they had not sufficient "ginger." She contrasted Dr. Addison's strong opposition to the bill with Mr. Henderson's accommodating attitude.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 9
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