The Democratic Labour Party was a left-wing political party in New Zealand in the 1940s. It was a splinter from the larger Labour Party, and was led by the prominent socialist John A. Lee.
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The Lee affair was an event that transpired in the late 1930s in New Zealand revolving around the unequivocally socialist Labour Party MP John A. Lee and his repeated public critiques of his party's l
Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)
…also Bill Anderton, Dan Sullivan, Gordon Hultquist and William John Lyon (Hultquist and Lyon both died while serving in World War II). In 1940, after a long period of rebellion against the party leadership, Lee was finally expelled from the Labour Party. He quickly moved to establish the Democratic Labour Party. One other MP, Bill Barnard, joined him as…
A cartoon showing Lee thrown out the window of the 1940 Labour Party Conference.
Michael Joseph Savage Portrait