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in 1922. It did not win any seats in parliament. Catts resigned from the Labor Party in 1922, blaming the loss of the 1922 state election on

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ism,

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and Tammanyism within the party. It was also associated with the recently elected state member for

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Walter Skelton Walter Peden Joyce Skelton MBE (28 March 1883 – 21 May 1979) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Skelton was born in Boggabri, New South Wales, ninth child of a railway fettler, edu ...

, and his

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. The party contested the 1922 federal election, but with little success, and ceased to exist shortly afterwards.The Protestant Independent Labor Party of NSW, 1923-1929

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