MR. CHARLTON RESIGNS
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR LEADERSHIP By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. CANBERRA, Thursday. In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. M. Charlton announced that he had resigned the leadership of the Federal Labour Party owing to ill-health. —A. and N.Z. Mr. Matthew Charlton was born at Linton, Victoria, in 1866, and at the age of 14 he began work as a mine tapper. He soon acquired an interest in industrial and political affafrs, and held various offices in the Loyal Miners’ Lodge. For two years he worked as a miner in the Kalgoorlie district. On leaving Western Australia he went to Hampton, New South Wales, and was employed in the South Waratah colliery. He afterwards became the miners’ delegate on the district board, and later was district treasurer. He was elected to the State Parliament for Waratah in 1903, and for Northumberland in 1904. He was elected to the Federal Parliament in 1910 as member for Hunter, New South Wales. He was appointed leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party in January, 1922. At the League of Nations Assembly in 1924 he was an Australian delegate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 317, 30 March 1928, Page 9
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