EX-M.P.'S
(Press. Assn.
FORMER LABOUR MEMBERS IN DIRE FINANCIAL STRAIGHTS PARTY TRYING TO HELP
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
LONDON, Monday. Many ex-Labour members of the House of Commons are in straitened circumstances. The Party Executive in inquiring with a view to aiding the hardest cases, though no fund exists for the purpose. Some of the older men, f eeling that their seats were safe, gave up Trade Union positions to younger men. The reinstatement of the older men is difficult to arrange. A few ex-members are .in actual distress, unemployed and penniless. Meantime the party, whose membership has been declining for years is planning a door-to-door search for members, to be known as "the. 2,000,000 dor-step drive."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 December 1931, Page 5
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