London, Jan. 1.
Labour has started the year well. On January 1 the papers announced the result of the election at Brom-loy, where, although a Coalition Unionist was elected, the Labour candidate polled 10,077 votes and reduced the majority of last autumn to 1071 from 12,501. Together with St. Albans this result is perhaps the most interesting we have bad, since both these scats are purely residential, particularly at Bromley where the majority of the houses ave tenanted by fairly well-to-do people.
It is not surprising that in other constituencies such as Widnes, Pontefract, Rusholme and Plymouth, Labour did well, for practically all four of them are of the working class,
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