The miners' leader, Mr. Cook, announced that a joint committee of the Trade Union Congress, the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Committee were drafting a scheme for nationalization of mines for submission to the Labour movement and subsequent presentation to Parliament. The main principles had been settled but the question of confiscation or compensation had vot yet been decided.
At the Labour Party conference to-day, Mr. Will Thorne, atp., pre-the Standing Orders Comnounced that Bfr. withdrawn his tion to tha Executive deal. ing ith the Executive's resolution declaring that no Communist should be a member of any section of any} affiliated local Labour Party and that_no known Communist. should be elected to a delegate conference, Mr. Thorne alluded to the many Communist resolutions in that con nexion appearing in the agenda, and said that, in view of th emphatic decision of previous conferences that no Communist should be eligible for membership of the Labour Party or as a Labour; candidate for Parliament, Executive had decided to enforce the standing order that, when general policy had been decided on, should mot reappear on the agenda for three years; but acceptance of the Executive's resolutions could be discussed as a separate! issue and, if they were adopted, no! resolution relating to Communist affiliation would be in order.
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