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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12806, 30 May 1910, Page 4

Tho decision of Mr. Will Crooks to offer himself a^ain as candidata for Woolwich has. given great satisfaction to the Labour Party in the constituency, says tho London correspondent of tho "Lyttelton Times." "I love a fight, and the stifcer it is the better 1 like it," said Mr Crooks. "I do not look at the. result of last January as a defeat; it was merely victory deferred. Enthusiasm among our supporters has grown greater since tuc contest.' A thousand new members have joined the. Labour Representation Association, and all are ready for work My defeat was not on the issue of free trade or the Budget or Dreadnoughts. It was due to the discharges at the Arsenal. 1 bclie.vc that the feeling among the Arsenal men is not so antagonistic to mo as it was. Moreover, at tho last election many of my supporters wero scattered far and w>de. Three hundred of them occupied tho front seats of a meeting I addressed in Winnipeg." Mr Crooks is looking forward to the next election as the most interesting he lias oyer fought.