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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number GAITSKELL/C/212
TitlePapers and correspondence concerning Clause IV and the redrafting of the Labour Party Constitution
Date1960
DescriptionNEC reports - 'Constitution and Standing Orders (Development 1900-1958)', 'Suggested Amendments' and 'Note on the Re-drafting of the Constitution' 1/60
Circular from W.H.Sefton (Clause 4 Defence Committe) to Constituency LPs 1/60
Draft aims of the British LP by Hugh Dalton, ms and typed, and a draft document, possibly by Gaitskell (different from Statement of Aims produced for discussion by the NEC) (3 plus duplicates)[?2/60] (see also in correspondence the Dalton letter that originally enclosed his draft)
Press release of a speech by Gaitskell at Nottingham 13/2/60
Press release of a speech by Colin Jackson at the Brighouse and Senborough by-election 3/60
Note on 'Clause IV Party objects' [1960]
Circular to NEC members from Gaitskell with a draft statement of Party Objects, annotated by Gaitskell and 3 further copies of the statement, 1 annotated by Gaitskell 3/60
Note 'Possible Amendment to Clause 10' [1960]
Printed LP Constitution and Standing Orders, approved at the 1958 Annual Conference [1958]
Note 'Statement of Principles. Interpreting Clause 4' [1960]
Labour Party leaflet 'Labour's Aims', statement on Clause IV, Party Objects, of the Constitution and Standing Orders (3 copies) 3/60
Articles by Anthony Crosland 'The Future of the Left' and a reply by Richard Crossman 'The Spectre of Revisionism' in 'Encounter' 3 & 4/60

Correspondence:
CROSLAND, Anthony, enclosing an appendix to his article in 'Encounter' and the party policy programmes of Holland (1959) and Sweden (1944 & draft 1960) (9) 2/60
DALTON, Hugh (2) 2/60
BENN, Anthony Wedgwood (4) 2-3/60
CROSSMAN, Richard, enclosing a press release of his speech to Coventry East LP (29/1/60) (4) 2-3/60
EVANS, C.W. (NUR) (2) 2-3/60
JONES, Ernest, Gaitskell to 3/60
GOOCH, Edwin, enclosing a circular from Stephen Swingler to Labour candidates (3) 3/60
WATSON, Samuel (4) 2-3/60
RAISIN, J.W. (Northern Home Counties Regional Office) (2) 3/60
McGARVEY, D. (United Society of Boilermakers) (6) 2-3/60
WILLIAMS, A.L., Gaitskell to, enclosing the draft statement of aims (3) 3/60
[PHILLIPS], Morgan 3/60
DRIBERG, Thomas 3/60
WHITE, Eirene, enclosing suggested amendments to the 'Statement of Party Objects'(2) 3/60

Press cuttings and newspapers:
Cuttings from 'Co-operative Times' and 'The Times'(5) 12/59 - 1/60
'Leeds Weekly Citizen','Tribune' and 'Forward' and a cutting from 'Scottish Co-operator', containing reports on Gaitskell's Nottingham ??? 19 & 20/2/60.
Extent1 folder
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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