SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS
EXPULSION FROM LABOUR PARTY. ENDORSED BY CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. The Labour ' conference, after hearing Sir Stafford Cripps endorsed the executive’s decision regarding his expulsion. Sir Stafford Cripps, addressing the conference, declared that the issue was whether he had a right to issue a memorandum advocating a Popular Front against the National Government to the party organisation. He claimed the right to endeavour to convert the rank and file to his view. He sent the memorandum only to affiliated bodies. He wanted the party to change its tactics in view of the changed conditions. - Mr H. Dalton argued that Sir S. Cripps’s expulsion was due to his refusal to reaffirm allegiance to the Labour Party within the meaning of its constitution, and his refusal to withdraw the memorandum. Nobody was expelled for holding or expressing an opinion, but if the executive had not taken action, the Labour movement would have been threatened with disintegration. A card vote resulted: For the reference back of the executive's report dealing with the expulsion, 402,000. Against, 2,100.000.
This meant an endorsement of the expulsion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5
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