A resolution was passed calling for the establishment of a Central Labour College to provide independent working class education, outside of the control of the University of Oxford.
[1] The college was headed by James Dennis Hird, who had been dismissed as principal of Ruskin for supporting the striking students.
However, the move was opposed by a number of large unions, and on 7 September the proposal by the General Council of the TUC to proceed was defeated on a card vote.
In April a conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation voted to discontinue funding of the college unless additional levies could be raised from members.
[5] No such funding was forthcoming, and attempts to transfer the ownership of the college to the wider trade union movement were unsuccessful.