MR J. A. LEE’S COMMENT
“VOTED FOR DEPRESSION”
AUCKLAND, Monday
When it was announced to the crowd in the street on Saturday night that Mr J. A. Lee, leader of the Democratic Labour Party, would have a few words to say over the microphone, the crowd at once began hooting and jeering, and, although Mr Lee spoke, he could not be heard distinctly in the street because of the determination of the crowd to howl him down. Mr Lee said: “I have learned to take defeat as well as victory. I am convinced that the people who voted against depression and for the manpower commitments of the present Government have unwittingly voted for a depression, which lies in the near future. I want to pay a tribute to the quality of the men and women with whom I was associated. At least there was one section of the community not to be deterred by fear for fighting for New Zealand in politics as on the battlefield. “Maybe we may comfort ourselves by the thought that not so long ago Labour polled 500 and 600 votes for the same seats. Believing in the cause and the quality of my comrades. I can assure my friends that I shall continue to fight for the New Zealand in which I believe.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22154, 28 September 1943, Page 4
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