SYDNEY LABOUR POLITICS
MR. LAN:; COMMENTS ON ELECTION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Oct. 17. Referring to the election result, Mr. Lang said the Labour Party went to the poll with a more or less divided Parliamentary section and a clean break-away section of nine members who constituted themselves a new party under the ill-disguised patronage of the clique known as "the uncouth crooks of eliding panel fame.” Of these nine renegades only two secured re-election. These relied upon Nationalist votes to make their small majorities. No doubt the result was also influenced by the absence of exLabour members who failed to obtain a continuance of support in the selection ballots. The new Labour Party represents nearly half a million people, which is 100,000 more votes than Labour ever polled before. When it is remembered that , there has been an undercurrent of treachery working for the past year, within the movement the result is. not one to fill Labour. with any alarm. 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1927, Page 11
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