Industrial Labor Party

The Industrial Labor Party or Heffron Labor Party was a short-lived but influential political party active in New South Wales between 1936 and 1939. It was a splinter group of the Labor Party (ALP) and was formed by Bob Heffron after he and Carlo Lazzarini attempted to depose the party leader Jack Lang (who had been Premier of New South Wales 1925-27 and again 1930-32). Both Heffron and Lazzarini subsequently lost their party endorsements for the 1938 election.

At that election, the ILP stood candidates in 6 of the 90 seats and won 3.7% of the popular vote. Heffron and Lazzarini retained their seats in the Legislative Assembly. The party was successful at two subsequent by-elections in the seats of Hurstville (won by Clive Evatt) and Waverley (won by Clarrie Martin). These victories were seen as evidence of Lang's diminishing political power. Three other MLAs, Frank Burke (Newtown), C. M. A. Davidson (Cobar) and Ted Horsington (Sturt), all resigned from the ALP and joined the ILP in June 1939.

Under pressure from the federal executive of the ALP, the ILP was readmitted into the ALP at a unity conference on 26 August 1939. Heffron and William McKell then successfully combined to depose Lang on 5 September 1939.

Parliamentarians

Name Term Seat
Bob Heffron (Leader) August 1936 – 26 August 1939 Botany
Carlo Lazzarini August 1936 – 26 August 1939 Marrickville
William Dickson August 1936 – 26 August 1939 Legislative Councillor
Clive Evatt 18 March 1939 – 26 August 1939 Hurstville
Clarrie Martin 22 April 1939 – 26 August 1939 Waverley
Mat Davidson April 1939 – 26 August 1939[1] Cobar
Ted Horsington April 1939 – 26 August 1939 Sturt
Frank Burke 30 May 1939 – 26 August 1939[2] Newtown

References

  • Antony Green. "NSW Elections Analysis". New South Wales Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  • Nairn, Bede (1995) Jack Lang the 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0-522-84700-5, OCLC 34416531.
  1. ↑ "TWO MORE OPPONENTS OF MR. LANG". Tweed Daily. XXV (83). New South Wales, Australia. 7 April 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 5 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "M.L.A. JOINS HEFFRON LABOR". Tweed Daily. XXVI, (127). New South Wales, Australia. 31 May 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 5 April 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
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