The Coalition gained a handsome victory in the Stockport by-election.
Mr. Greenwood, a Unionist; and Me Flldes, a Liberal, ran together as Coalition candidates, and -headed the poll with a majority of more than six thousand over their nearest Labour opponent, Sir L. Chiozza Money. Mr. Bottemley's two candidates did badly, and a Sinn Fein candidate at the bottom of the poll forfeited his deposit because he did not receive an eighth of the votes cast. At the General Election a Coalition Liberal, the late Mr. S. L. Hughes, and an excellent repre- sentative of Labour, Mr. Wardle, were returned- unopposed, so that the Labour Party lost a seat in this- typical industrial constituency. On the other hand, in Dartford, which- is now largely inhabited by Woolwich Arsenal and other munition workers, an advanced Labour candidate, Mr. Mills, wow the seat held by the late Mr. James' Rowlands,. a worthy- Trade- Unionist of the old type who described himself as-a Liberal. Mr. Mills, on a small poll, received 73 more votes than his four
opponents—/en •Independent Libeml, a Coalition Unionist, .a member of the 'National Party, and an Independent candidate —put together. Probably Mr. Mills owed •many votes to the fact that he himself has been employed at the Arsenal and has !played an active part in Labour movements in the district.
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