QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS
MORE MINISTERS DUEEAT,E I>. (Australian Press Association) (United Service). BRISBANE, May 13. It is now regarded as certain that the anti-Labour forces in tho new Parliament will have a majority of twenty-one over Labour. Two more Ministers, Messrs Stopford (Homo Secretary) and Kirwan (Minister of Works) arc certain to be defeated, according to prominent Labour officials. Mr W. McCormack attributes, his smashing defeat to a general desire for a. change of Government and to the opposition making the promise to find employment for ten thousand unemployed, and also to the Government’s ’hostile attitude towards railway and waterside strikers some time ago. Disinterested judges, however, declare tho defeat is due to general mismanagement and a failure to solve the unemployed problem and stagnation of industry generally. Thus the Federal Country Party Parliamentary Committee says: “Fourteen years of State Communism' in Queoiis--1 ai.icl has ended with the most remarkable defeat in the ' history of Australian politics.” ‘ :
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1929, Page 6
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