Mr. McInnes Shaw could have been under no delusion regarding the prospects of his Success in so strongly entrenched a Labour constituency as the Springburn Division of Glasgow, especially as the widow of the late member was prepared to stand for election. In point of fact Mr. Shaw did well to reduce the Labour majority from 8,000 to just under 6000. He is an old Parliamentary hand for he sat for West Renfrew from 1924 to 1929, He unsuccessfully opposed the late Lord Asquith and Oxford of Paisley in 1923. An active member of the Glasgow City Council and a partner in a firm of ironfounders, Mr. Shaw had plenty of local interests to justify his claim for Springburn's attention but old asso-dations have evidently been too strong. Those who recognize the services rendered by the late Mr. George Hardie and his more famous brother the late Mr. J. Keir Hardie to the Labour movement, will, politics apart, be glad to know that the House of Commons can still find a representative of that family link in its midst.
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