In the voting the Communists were overwhelmingly defeated. The first
motion which was proposed by the Executive prohibited members of the Communist Party from joining local Labour Parties. This was carried by 2,870,000 votes to 821,000. A further motion which appealed to Trade Unions to refrain from choosing Com- munists as delegates to Labour meetings was carried by 2,692,000 votes to 480,000. Mr. Gallacher, the Clydeside Communist, was ferocious and defiant, but he annoyed rather than impressed the delegates. Mr. Pollitt, who is the Communist leader, declared that it was impossible to keep the Communists out. "We will get in by one way or another ! " he exclaimed. The Labour movement was being disrupted and the responsibility would be brought home to the supporters of exclusion. "If the Party is wide enough to include those who dine at Balmoral or who are Lord Inchcape's guests at Cowes it must be wide enough to include Communists."
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