EX-M.P.’S STARVING.
Former Labour Members now Penniless. SOME IN ACTUAL DISTRESS. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 21, noon). LONDON, December 20. Many ex-Labour members of the House of Parliament are in straitened circumstances and the party executive is inquiring into them with a view to aiding the hardest cases, though no fund exists for the purpose. Some of the older men, feeling that their seats were safe, gave up Trade Union positions to younger men, and reinstatement of the older men is difficult to arrange. A few ex-members are in actual distress, are unemployed and penniless. In the meantime the party, whose membership has been declining for years, is planning a door-to-door search for members, known as “ the two million doorstep drive.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 7
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