A committee, drawn from representatives of constituency parties and trade unions in the Nottingham area, is to campaign for the reinstatement of Ken Coates in the Labour Party. The committee will include a number of constituency leaders, secretaries, chairmen, treasurers and other officers both of local parties and the City Party itself, I+ will discuss the promotion of a campaign in the movement, publicity, the publication of the facts within the Labour movement, and a number of similar questions.
newspapers, purpating to be "leaks", implying that the Organisation subcommittee of the National Executive Committee, which is investigating the situation in Nottingham, had already made up its mind, Ken Coates wrote immediately to Len Williams, asking him to rebut these reports or investigate their origin. He has as yet had no reply from Mr. Williams. He had previously written on the 17th December, welcoming the Commission, asking to participate, and asking if his appeal could be taken in conjunction with the Nottingham enquiry. No reply has yet been received to this letter, either. Scores of protests from unions and constituency parties have come in to Nottingham. A letter condemning the expulsion has been signed by a large number of members of the Tobacco Workers! Union. The Fire Brigades Union branch has circulated a petition which has so far been signed by about fifty members. Workers at Raleigh and Ericsson's have also signed an appeal. A co-ordination of these protests may be one of the first aims of the new reinstatement committee,