Private and Confidential
LABOUR PARTY INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT
SPAIN CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Spain Campaign Committee was held in a Committee Room in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 4, at 6.30 p.m.
PRESENT:
Executive Members
George Dallas (Chairman)
Sir Stafford Cripps, M.P.
Joseph Henderson, M.P.
Stanley Hirst
James Walker, M.P.
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P.
Co-opted Members
Captain H. Beaumont
Ald. W. Dobbie, M.P.
D.R. Grenfell, M.P.
J. Griffiths, M.P.
J. Jagger, M.P.
Dr. H.B. Morgan
E. Shinwell, M.P.
Miss S. Wingate
Officers
J.S. Middleton
Geo. R. Shepherd
W.W. Henderson
Morgan Phillips
William Gillies
Joint Secretaries:
William Gillies
Ellen Wilkinson
The Minutes having been read, were adopted with verbal amendments.
1) MR. ERNEST BEVIN
Attention having been called to the statement in the "Daily Herald" on Wednesday November 3, 1937, that Mr. Bevin had not been invited to address the Albert Hall Demonstration when his name was announced in the press,
It was AGREED that Mr. Gillies should express to Mr. Ernest Bevin the committee's profound regrets for this apparent discourtesy.
2 ) CO-OPTED MEMBERS
Mr. Gillies reported that the invitation to become a co-opted member of the Committee had been accepted by: Captain H. Beaumont, Councillor Tom Braddock, Viscount Corvedale, Ald. W. Dobbie, M.P., D.R. Grenfell, M.P., J. Griffiths, M.P., J. Jaeger, M.P., Dr H.B. Morgan, E. Shinwell, M.P., G. Nansborough, Miss S. Wingate and V. Tewson.