Detectives were hunting through-jour the night for two other members of the Communist Executive, W.. Gallacher, who lives at Paisley and now in Scotland, and T. Bell, for whose arrest similar warrants have been issued. They were arrested today and others are being sought for. Large quantities of literature and documents were seized in the raids. The legal position of the Communist Party has long been under consideration by the Law Officers of the Crown. Sir William Joynéon-Hicks, the Home Secretary, has in Urged the view that the conduct of the leaders of the Party amounted to am illegal conspiracy against the! Crown, and arrests thave followed'
close There is no doubt that these prosections start a big political cam-Paign since the Communists wilh undoubtedly endeavour to terrorize the present Government, as they successfully terrorized the last one. Communism is, however, under a cloud since, as a resuit of the Labour Conference at Liverpool, Communists are being prohibited from standing as Labour candidates or receiving any support in their activities,
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