Assertion: labour party | /r/CapableOf | decline to contest 1918 general election
Facets:
value: in order to allow
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's (independent Labour MPs) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status (although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates).