DEMOCRATIC LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 11

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR.

SPLITTING THE PARTY. i - ADDRESS BY MR. J A. £EE. "Some people say wi will split' the Labour party. We will split it all right, but we will get the log and Fraser will get the chip," said Mr. J. A. Lee, M.P. for Grey Lynn, at the Town Hall last nighß when addressing a= meeting called by t&e Democratic Labour party. Mr. Lee said that 40 branches of the Democratic i* Labour party ha J bein formed and 30 more were in process of formation.'- There was an audience of about 1800, .the meeting being presided over by Mr. G. Blacker, president of the Auckland district council of the party. Mr 1 . Lee said that before the end of the year he believed would be 100 branches uf/the party in New Zealand and the support of hundreds of young people was being secured. They were people evidently determined to scrap both the old gangs and start afresh. The speaker—said the citadels of private finance would fall before the Democratic Labour party just as the walls of Jericho fell before the hosts of the Lord, j The people wanted a country free, the cramping hand of the debt system. At the of the address Mr. Lee wag accorded a vote of thanks and confidence with only one or two dissentient voice®, v