A SOCIALIST’S DISAFFECTION.
JOIMS THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 16. “ I am absolutely sick of the intrigue and corruption in the Socialist Party,” Councillor R. A. Baker, Sir Oswald Mosley’s agent at the last election, told a Smethwick correspondent. Cr Baker has severed his 10 years’ connection with the Socialists and is joining the Conservative Party. Inquiries in political circles show that dissensions among Smethwick Socialists are 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 he 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 the last municipal election has instituted an action for slander, and the case will be heard at Birmingham Assizes in December,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 76
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