 At the 1924 UFA convention , Bevington and his followers moved a resolution calling for immediate action on the previous year 's banking resolution . Against them stood Greenfield 's government , UFA president Henry Wise Wood ( whom Bevington was challenging for re @-@ election ) , and radical Labour Member of Parliament William Irvine . Thanks to Irvine 's surprising intervention on the side of the conservatives , the resolution was soundly defeated . 
