A motion to refer back the Standing Orders Committee's report with regard to Communist afllia-! tion was defeated by 2,954,000 votes to 921,000, Later, The Labour Conference by 2,870,-! 000 against 921,000 votes rejected]
motion to refer back the Exee-! tives recommendation to. excl individual Communists.
Later.
The Labour Conference adopted the Executive's recommendations inst _afliation "of Communists: after rejecting, by 2,600,000 votes against 480,000, a third Communist attempt to refer the matter back.
abate was ive i Orders had been invoked to. burke discussion evoked an empha denial from Mr. Arthur Henderson, who said that the Executive coi" Fidered it undesirable to waste further time on a question which' the Labour movement had already, decided. in Power Sept. 30.
Yesterday's proceedings of the Labour Conference are regarded as constituting an "all Red rout". Comparison is drawn between the firm front presented by political Labour leaders as a result of which the rebuff was administered to the Communists, and the diametrically opposite tone which pervaded the recent Trade Union Congress at, Scarborough.
Mr. Cramp's address ix generally approved. The two _conelusions strikingly emerge from the! day's events are that the Party' Headers are as strongly determined ever not to flirt with the methods coated by the extremists, and the! secondly that Mr. Ramsay Macdonald has definitely re-estal ished his hold upon the Party.
Tt is under-_ stood that the leaders who are ex-Ministers ave relieved and quite satisfied at the turn of events.
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