UNITED FRONT
British Labour Opposes Independent Motion "WOULD SPLIT THE PARTY" (Eeceived 6, 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. The Labour Party conference at Bourneaiouth passed on to a debate on the united front which Sir Stafford Cripps moved should be adopted. Mr. Herbert Morrison declared: "If you want a. first class row in the Labour movement, talk 'united front.' This sort of thing will split the Labour Party from top to bottom." Delegates defeated tho motion by 1,730,000 votes to 373,000. The result was greeted with loud cheers and some uproar oceurred. Iu the course of the debate on the united front, Sir Stafford Cripps declared that Lord Cecil, Mr. Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury were the three most bitter opponents of the working-class in Britain, yet prominent members of the Labour movement sbared platforms with them. Mr. Morrison retorted: J' There is nothing to prevent Labour members from appearing on platforms with mombers of other parties. Mr. Pollitt, a member of the Independent Labour Party, appeared with the Duchess of Atholl, but he would not speak with Trotsky if he came to London, yet Trotsky is a Socialist."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 5
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