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- 1942 Sep - 1944 Oct (Creation)
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Papers relating to attempts to form an affiliation or electoral pact between the Common Wealth Party and the Labour Party including memorandum on the Common Wealth Party and the Labour Party, by Richard Acland for the working committee, 20 May 1943; draft letter to the Labour Party by Tom Wintringham, 24 May 1943; draft letters with accompanying notes to executive of the Labour Party by Richard Acland, (President of Common Wealth), May 1943; article 'An appeal to the Labour Party', by Wintringham, written for the national committee and the Common Wealth Review ; alternative drafts of the appeal to the Labour Party, 10 May 1944; leaflet 'Open letter to members of the Labour Party from the working committee of Common Wealth', 7 Jun 1943, with various drafts; papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's Special Conference on 'Left unity' and the relation of the Common Wealth Party to the Labour Party, held 8 Oct 1944, including agenda, timetable and report; letter on formation of a committee to negotiate with the Labour Party, 17 Nov 1944; draft for discussion at the negotiating committee meeting, Dec 1944; paper titled 'the coalition, socialism and the general election'; paper titled Labour Party crisis'; copy of letter from Acland to Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay) on terms of affiliation with the Labour Party, 11 Sep 1944; papers for the Labour Party conference, 1944, and copy of letter from Kenneth Ingram to Harry Roff on Labour Party's refusal to affiliate with or make an electoral pact with the Common Wealth Party, 13 Dec 1944.