From a Nottingham Correspondent.
1517 Faced with the development of a sizeable and united left-wing, the leadership of the Nottingham City Labour Party have become consider ably alarmed, The Bast Midlands Regional Organiser, Cattermole, usually conspicuously absent from such gatherings, turned up at the last one with & proposal to exclude members from outside the city limits from the right to speak or vote, This means that Trade Unions who have, say, 400 members in Nottingham, but are represented by a delegate who happens to live just beyond the city boundary, are disenfranchised : a fact which was pointed out from the floor of the meeting. But Cattermole's proposal has a good non—geographical reason behind it 1: an increasing number of left-wing delegates are being elected to the City Party and the outlying areas provide some of the most yooal of these, This accounts for the fact that Cattermole is prepared to swallow his words, for some five years ago he compelled a reluctant City Party to accept the rights of delegates from outlying areas to be present. Clearly, interpretation of the rules is dependent on the political weather prevailing at any given timesss.. mt Cattermole will have to get a very big constitutional umbrella indeed to protect himself from the flood of left-wing sentiment that is being built up in Nottingham today. Moreover, were the proposals of the Boundaries Commision to be implemented he would be forced into another aboutturn, for these would include in the City those elements he is anxious to exclude,