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Political party in Northern Rhodesia
The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party was a political party in
Northern Rhodesia .
History
The party was established by
Roy Welensky in 1941.
[1]
[2] It was supported by European working class miners and artisans,
[3] and campaigned for closer union with
Southern Rhodesia .
[4] The first congress of the party was held in
Nkana on 11 July 1941,
[5]
[6] and called for immediate amalgamation with Southern Rhodesia.
[5]
[6]
In the
1941 general elections the party contested five of the eight seats, winning them all;
[7] Welensky in
Broken Hill , F. T. Sinclair in
Livingstone and Western,
Michael McGann in
Luanshya , F S Roberts in
Ndola and
Martin Visagie in
Nkana .
[7]
[8] However, it was dissolved after it was defeated in the
1944 elections .
[9]
References
^
Sir Roy Welensky , Bodleian Library.
^ Deborah Andrews (1992).
Annual Obituary, 1991 . St. James Press. p. 771.
ISBN
978-1-55862-175-6 .
^ Lewis Henry Gann, Michael Gelfand (1964), Huggins of Rhodesia: The Man and His Country , George Allen & Unwin, p170
^
Bill Schwarz (2011), The White Man's World , Oxford: Oxford University Press, p363
^
a
b J. R. T. Wood (1983).
The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . Graham Publishing. p. 80.
ISBN
978-0-620-06410-1 .
^
a
b
The Crown Colonist . Crown Colonist. 1942. p. 372.
^
a
b "N. Rhodesian elections: New Labour Party Wins Five Seats", East Africa and Rhodesia , 4 September 1941, p7
^ "Matters of Moment", East Africa and Rhodesia , 4 September 1941, p3
^ Don Taylor (1955), The Rhodesian: The Life of Sir Roy Welensky , Museum Press, p75