ABSTRACT
The War Emergency: Workers' National Committee,1 the only independent voice of the united British Labour movement after August 19I4, was the primary institutional focus for the Webbs' socialist thought until I 9 I 8. Through his work on the committee, Sidney Webb became the guiding figure in the formulation of the only consistent and coherent wartime Labour programme. Under his unquestioned intellectual leadership, this body provided a firm foundation for the reorganization of the Labour Party in the last year of the war.
