ABSTRACT
The combination of economic depression and political crisis had a profound effect on the Labour party in the early 1930s. The remnants of the party’s moderates led by Arthur Henderson, who had been elected chairman of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) after the August crisis, hurriedly put together an election manifesto when Parliament was dissolved in early October. The policy subcommittee of the national executive committee was the main vehicle within the party structure for generating research, discussion and formal policy recommendations. Bevin and Walter Citrine, the secretary of the Trades Union Congress, dominated the trade union movement in the 1930s as organizers on behalf of union interests at the national level, as well as within the Labour party. The XYZ club members helped Dalton to draft the resolution on currency, banking and finance submitted to the Leicester Labour party conference in 1932.
