SOCIALIST LEAGUE MAY DISBAND
NATIONAL COUNCIL’S VOTE (Received April 22, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. By eight votes to four the National Council of the Socialist League decided to recommend the immediate dissolution of the league. It was decided that the recommendation should come before the annual conference of the league at Leicester at Whitsun. The national executive of the Socialist Party on March 25 decided that the membership of the Socialist League, of which Sir Stafford Cripps is founder and chairman, was incompatible with membership of the Socialist Party. Sir Stafford Cripps and his followers will therefore be expelled from the party unless they give up membership of the league by June 1.
Sir Stafford Cripps was instrumental in the formation of the Left Wing United Front, composed of the Socialist League, the Communist Party ana the Independent Labour Party. This caused disruption in the Labour ranks. The Labour Party refused to countenance the alliance and warned its members to stand by the decision of the next party conference or to take the consequences, which means expulsion.
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Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 7
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