The Majority Labor Party, sometimes called the Majority Australian Labor Party, was an Australia

Australia

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n political party formed by federal Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 MP James Catts

James Catts

James Howard Catts was an Australian politician, unionist and businessman.-Early life:Catts was born at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales to joiner and grocer James Catts and Amy, née Hedger...

 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 Irish

Irish people

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ism, Bolshevism and Tammanyism

Tammany Hall

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 within the party. It was also associated with the recently-elected state member for Newcastle

Electoral district of Newcastle

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, Walter Skelton

Walter Skelton

Walter Peden Joyce Skelton MBE was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....

, and his Protestant Labor Party

Protestant Labor Party

The Protestant Labor Party was a minor Australian political party that operated mainly in New South Wales and Queensland in the 1920s and 1930s. It was formed by Independent MP Walter Skelton, member for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1922–27...

. The party contested the 1922 federal election

Australian federal election, 1922

Federal elections were held in Australia on 16 December 1922. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes lost its majority...

, but with little success, and ceased to exist shortly afterwards.