Federal Lang Labor
Lang Labor's final appearance in federal politics came when Lang was elected to the House of Representatives for the federal seat of Reid at the 1946 election, being elected with the benefit of Liberal Party preferences. Lang was a nuisance to the Labor government led, since 1945, by Ben Chifley, whom he repeatedly castigated in public. He lost his seat at the 1949 election. In the double dissolution 1951 election he stood for the Senate, but was not elected.
Lang was re-admitted to the NSW branch ALP in 1971 at the age of 94 after a campaign by his protégé Paul Keating. He died four years later.
Read more about this topic: Lang Labor
Famous quotes containing the words federal, lang and/or labor:
“Goodbye, boys; I’m under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don’t surrender! Pay no attention to the injunction machine at Parkersburg. The Federal judge is a scab anyhow. While you starve he plays golf. While you serve humanity, he serves injunctions for the money powers.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
...
We’ll tak a cup o’kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)