CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE
Crossman Is Elected (NJZ. Press Association-Copyright) LONDON, October 5. Mr Richard Crossman, aged 52, a prominent Labour M.P., author and journalist, was tonight formally elected chairman of the Labour Party’s national executive committee, at Scarborough. Yorkshire, where the party's annual conference is* being held. Mr Crossman produced Labour's national pensions plan. Mr Harold Wilson, the Opposition’s chief spokesman on economic matters—"shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer”—was elected vice-chairman. A move to elect Mr lan Mikardo
as the new party chairman was defeated. He is a leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Britain’s main “Ban the H-Bomb” organisation.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29330, 8 October 1960, Page 4
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