LABOR PARTY SPLIT
fetofcfc BY-ELECTIOtt MINERS’ ULTIMATUM j-. a . . (Per Press Association.') CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “I will l|ght on,” declared Mr P. C. Webb, thelmcral Labor candidate for the Buller Try-election, in a telephone conversation with the Star from Westport this morning. Mr Webb was quite unperturbed by an ultimatum issued to the New Zealand Labor Party by the national council of the United Mine Workers’ Association that unless he was replaced by a candidate acceptable to unionists the Miners’ Council would run a candidate in opposition. “They haven’t a leg to stand on,” Mr Webb said. He admitted that meetings of miners at Millcrton and Stockton had passed motions protesting against his candidature, hut be was emphatic in declaring that such meetings were, not by any means representative of the miners as a whole. “They are just the same little clique that plagued the party during the life-time of its late leader,” Mr Webb added.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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