Labour Not Alarmed At Election Result

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 9

Labour Not Alarmed At Election Result

MR. LANG’S STATEMENT “RENEGADES OF THE PARTY” By Coble. — Pres* Association. —Copyright Reed. 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Referring to the New South Wales election, Mr. J. T. Lang. Leader of the State Labour Party, said the Labour Party went to the poll with a more or less divided Parliamentary section, and a clean breakaway by a section of nine members, who constituted themselves a new party under the illdisguised patronage of a clique known as "the uncouth crooks of slidlpgpanel fame.” Of these nine renegades, only two secured re-election. These relied upon Nationalist votes to make their small majorities. No doubt the result was also 111 licenced by the absence of ex Labour members, who failed to obtain a continuous of support in the selection ballots. “The new Labour Party represents nearly half a million people, which is 100,000 more votes than Labour ever polled before. “When it is remembered that there has been an under-current of treachery working for the past year within the movement, the result is not one to fill Labour with any alarm."—A. and M.Z.