Northern Rhodesian Labour Party
{{Short description|Political party in Northern Rhodesia}}
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The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party was a political party in Northern Rhodesia.
History
The party was established by Roy Welensky in 1941.[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/welensky.html Sir Roy Welensky], Bodleian Library.{{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3hO28Q2cwsC|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=771}} It was supported by European working class miners and artisans,Lewis Henry Gann, Michael Gelfand (1964), Huggins of Rhodesia: The Man and His Country, George Allen & Unwin, p170 and campaigned for closer union with Southern Rhodesia.Bill Schwarz (2011), The White Man's World, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p363 The first congress of the party was held in Nkana on 11 July 1941,{{cite book|author=J. R. T. Wood|title=The Welensky Papers: A History of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzhzAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Graham Publishing|isbn=978-0-620-06410-1|page=80}} and called for immediate amalgamation with Southern Rhodesia.{{cite book|title=The Crown Colonist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJAeAQAAMAAJ|year=1942|publisher=Crown Colonist|page=372}}
In the 1941 general elections the party contested five of the eight seats, winning them all;"N. Rhodesian elections: New Labour Party Wins Five Seats", East Africa and Rhodesia, 4 September 1941, p7 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."Matters of Moment", East Africa and Rhodesia, 4 September 1941, p3 However, it was dissolved after it was defeated in the 1944 elections.Don Taylor (1955), The Rhodesian: The Life of Sir Roy Welensky, Museum Press, p75
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