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Page 166 April 14, 1965 -—- THE WEEK IIIIII_ _'_|fll 717" 1|i"4I~A* *1 1 "Haf-millon houses needed" EASTER '65 EASTER MARCH: CND is organ- say ‘Railway Clerks ising a three-day march this year, from High Wycombe (Bomber Com- HE April issue of the TSSA A prerequisite to all this is lower mand HQ), via Uxbridge (USAF Tjournal contains an editorial interest rates, in some cases a form base), to Trafalgar Square. commenting on the Milner-Holland of subsidy, and a modernisation of Report, which draws some of the building p methods. Incidentally, The march costs a lot to organise, key lessons of this scarifying docu- might it not be possible for some of and all marchers are being asked to ment. the aircraft factories threatened with pay a 5/- registration fee. Marchers redundancy to be re-equlipped for Last month’s shocker -- the living in the London area cannot be the production of industrialised Milner-Holland Report under- provided with accommodation; but if housing components? lined in grim terms not just how you can’t find anywhere to stay In I964 370,000 housing units yourself, there will be some rough much more should have been done ;|-u---1--\.|-ru-1-|---—-1-|.-u-Cir-w-.n.|--r1—.I\_r\_ were completed, and the Labour Apr|l 14th 1965. VI 3 No 5 in the way of house building but, accommodation provided on the Government believes that this year equally important, what little was nights of Good Friday, Saturday, and a figure of 400,000 can be achieved. Sunday. IF YOU CAN MARCH, _ _ _ i done to prevent the exploitation of A country the size of Britain ought tenants by unscrupulous landlords! EVEN FOR A SHORT PERIOD, to be able to build half a million PLEASE SEND YOUR NAME, In fact, the Rent Act of 1957 with its units a year. Western Germany, provisions for eviction was an en- HOME ADDRESS, AND 5/- to which is roughly the size of Britain, CND at I4 Grays Inn Road, London. couragement to some of those land- hqi“ already manages t h at number, .-.-...-r lords to pursue even more ruthlessly although it ought to be pointed out their trade in misery. MARCH PROGRAMME: that dwellings are usually slightly EASTER SATURDAY: Nap- Whilst the Report was about hous- smaller there than in this country. hill, 9.30 a.m. High Wycombe, ing"in the Greater London area, the There is a place for both the pri- Loudwater (lunch), Gerrards ‘i’ ~. "' 3.»-fit:- fact is that the pattern can be found vate and the public sectors in this Cross (tea), Uxbridge (Metro- -‘*2 in practically every large city in the challenge but it is evident that politan Line Station). “.1-a, #5’ country. The national housing short- iv 41" Local Authorities will have to take , tf, -1': -"""“""Q51-I--r-I-I11I\;1Il'\I:Il‘r.-‘VT .-sé,-? ‘cf-r 4,)?‘ age has created a situation where 4-. an increasingly large share of the EASTER SUNDAY: Uxbridge "<5; $ slum properties exist in an “Affluent work. Given the right conditions, 10 a.m. Ruislip, Harrow (lunch) \- ‘ic "" "' Society” and where a minority of they will no doubt be only too -""-4 ‘f-.‘f'-E+,_-ff’? Hanger Lane, Ealing Common .-§- 3‘:-5 " bad landlords profit at the expense pleased to fulfil their role. Housing (tea), Acton Green (Turnham ""1""""“'1"\ 4- of people who merely seek the is one of the most human and press- Green Station). , basic necessity of ra roof over their ing problems facing the Government. wr-O-~—P1 heads. A The Week says: The demand for s EASTER MONDAY: Acton *°'i='?°Mi=-<» The land racket, high A interest a target of these proportions is Green, Hammersmith, Kensing- charges and high building costs badly needed. Now is the time to ton_, Hyde Park (lunch), Vic- have had their reflection in both the consider resolutions to the Labour torla, Whitehall, Trafalgar Sq. Local Authority and private sectors Party Conference along these lines.

of housing. In some areas, a»home 5j"*l:-P.» has become a luxury and a vain dream for many . . . ‘ 0 Miners‘ leaders With the top-heavy concentration in south-east England it is only too obvious that the overall answer to join The Week much of the housing problem rests READERS will have noticed that with the creation of new towns far The Week has two new spon-

beyond the Metropolitan Green Belt sors: Lawrence Daly, and Eric Var- ' _ i-_ -- i fl , ___ i J-7_- _____ i - _L - -- and the adoption of industrialised ley, MP. Mr. Lawrence Daly recently \ 1? A A techniques for their construction. won the position of General Secre- These would be “self-supporting” tary of the Scottish National Union Business and towns, with industry and all the of Mineworkers. He was a miners’ Editorial Address: ’ .. . iii ~ amenities necessary for the popula- agent in Fifeshire and a county tion. ‘ r councillor. A 54 Park Road, “ * ii W Mr. Eric Varley is Member of Par- Lenton, Nottingham. r“ "* . j_~‘~,, If towns and cities have insuffici- Tel. Nottingham 48369. " ~ * " ent building land available (including liament for Chesterfield sponsored 1317i-M‘-L that for redevelopment with higher by the NUM. In recent months‘ he ' Edltors: densities) to cope with their prob- has been taking an active interest in A--J-1. 0-1-4- lem, then every possible aid should the progress of the Steel Nationalisa- Ken Ooates be given as encouragement to those tion Bill; He has also participated in on the housing lists to move out to the discussions around workers’ 1 the new towns. control for the steel industry. , . H l I _ I M Iii. SS ll and Sartre on wetnam Published by THE WEEK. 54 Park Road. Lenton. Nottingham Printed by Wm. J. Butler 8: Co. (T.U.), Bulwell, Nottingham. utfifiy mmdqfive. fiviwnkr 6.1‘-w1-,fw)'1v°I"'/ cluxgt .5

THE WEEK —-L April 14, 1965 W M P389152 Paee 156 April 14, 1965 -‘- THE WEEK _ __ _, :____’ -_t______1_._4__i____t__'i|_- *7 __ V _ ___i__V L I -L h YT: __' _.' fl‘ :17: '—_ ___7 __ ___ i. Ii _iI l j “W |— i JBAN-PAUL SARTBE ‘ i‘.°. “iiit sl.‘li;T.i.ia‘i"’..a’Ei‘.“l§..‘§’§“s‘i gravity. The United St-ates will ct ” Why I Cannot Visit the U.S.A.” evolve, of course, slowly, very slowly, but more rapidly if you resist April 14th», 1965-. Vol. 3, N0. 5 Vietnam Butohery Denounced them than if you address them with THE ll‘€Ckl€SS actions of the American Government in WHEN Jean-Paul Sartre can- an acute cris.is—-la military disaster, sermons.” Vietnam have brought the rworld to the brink of celled a series of meetings in the grave -threat of a world war. The E nuclear war. The probable results are _so awful that the United States on March I 8th, only way we can contribute to arous- people will not face them and will not admit that they are he gave as his reason, “The policy of ing this opinion is by indicating Huzb%“?Jr:f£J;_ _ _ . _ . ...,,,,.,,,,.=c-==...... ,,,,,,,,,,,,,_,,_.,r...... ,_ .....H______,,,r._::,,, brutal, over-all condemna.tion of . I I I ‘ r I I _ -‘I_-_I‘I_I|-‘~_*_'_",‘,"."_ . .'.“...-‘I_._I_ I-_v_-_-_-,',‘,','.'I .‘I Ill‘----“'.'---I violence practised in Vietnam by the ______' , ' I , I I .,,,,,,___,_,_,_,,,,,,,,,,,,______,,,,,,,,,,,,I - - - I I v_-_1_"'_',",‘,',',', I I . ‘I - I I- I I I_I_-_-_',',','.". .'I . I I I I - I ______' I I I I I__ ‘ -I.'.‘-r‘I-|.I.I-llliIIIll-W‘,-l.l_|-nil-Ill-I-IIIllIV-'|-"...,.. _...... ______“q,,, C§§nn - ==> - - =. - -= .==.= probable. American policy maintains that the extinction _u__nII.II_I...... I _' _..'.'.__ . I- ._- .I .,-,“_ , a,,,.IIIII.... American policy in Vietnam by try- .'-I I'I'I - _ _" '.'.‘ ' I - ‘ - -II I I government of the United States ...... Ilfal _ ..| ., ._, _. ... ,,,,_...... 156. Editorial '.‘.'I‘. I _I--1------_ , _ , , , _ . . .'. I ‘I -- _-_-_ _ _ ,','.‘, , I‘.'I I I I I I I|I__- ~=vvc¢------.==~==>r====»¢==¢=====-====<== of the human race would be a smaller misflortune than ‘ . ‘ I ' I ' I ' I - - ' - - I I I I * _ ' ' _ ' . ' . ' , ' . ' I ‘ . ' . ' I ' I ' I - I - I I I - _ - ' _ - , ' ' , ' . ' . ‘ . 'I'-"I'I'-'- I - with the approval of the majority of ing to stir up wherever possible ______,,,,,,,,,_,____,Hq,_,q“,,,,,,_,__,_,,,,,,,,,,,_“....,,, 57. Sartre the permission of freedom to South Vietnam. This position the American people . . .” that is in Europe_-some protests.” 158. Three-nation Rally is one which cannot be soberly maintained. Efforts were made by American Sartre condemns Washington’s Anti-Nuclear Force 159. Students‘ Protest If we survive, Vietnam will not be the last crisis. The radicals to get him to reconsider. The propaganda in the most cutting way: Students for a Democratic Society, “What do the Americans say? That 160. Algeria main conflict in the world is now between American power for instance, cabled him on March they are intensifying the war in Viet- Grows Greater 161. Aparlheld (with the lbacking of lesser ‘Western governments) and 25th, inviting him to address a rally nam, that tihey are bombing the THE fourth Belgian anti-nuclear 162. Workers‘ Control nationalism in the Third World and China. Until the U.S. of 10,000 in Washington that is North, that they are utilising gas in march, on March 28th, was a being organised April 17th to pro- the South, in order to make negotia- spectacular event. A record 27,000 163. Budget Government—and especially the military and the C.I.A.-- are prepared to abandon the doctrine of counter-revolution test against the war in Vietnam. The tions possible. The enormity of people took p-art. During the three 164. Books SDS offered to organise a speaking this is sufficiently impressive. Be- previous years, the numbers were and come to terms with demands for genuine political and cause, if you think it over, what does ;4,000, 10,000 and 15,000 respec- 165. Incomes Policy economic independence; the world will stagger from one tour and forwarded invitations to 166. Housing P Sartre to speak over several radio this mean? War is always made in tively. The central slogan of this crisis to another. Until the British people are prepared stations in New York and California order to end in peace, obviously. In year’s march was “Hands Off Viet- ' 1 to oppose and overthrow governments which support which have a wide audience inter- a certain peace. The one chosen. In nam,” which was linked with the cry chemical and napalm -warfare, the U.S. will continue to ested in cultural and political topics. certain negotiations. Those to be “Leave NATO.” After the march, rely on Britain in its policies of extermination. In response to this pressure, Sartre imposed. But the problem is to hundreds of young people went to wrote an article in the Paris weekly, determine if an outcome is sought the American Embassy, where they In a “recent cable from Hanoi, President Ho Chi Minh Le Nouoel Obseroateur, of April Ist, that is considered to be acceptable demonstrated, sh-outing “Vietnam to has informed me of the tragic results of American bomb- explaining his position. to the adversary or if the aim is to the Vietnamese,” “U.S. go home,” Sponsors ing of his country. Women and children have been Sartre holds that the extension of ideatroy lthe adversary so ithait his and “Stop your war crimes.” Frank Allaun, M.P. slaughtered daily, houses and villages wiped out. This is the civil. war into an imperialist successors will accept an outcome Scuffles took place with the police, Perry Anderson the reality behind press reports of A_merica’s efforts on assault on North Vietnam pro- that constitutes capitulation. The some of whom were injured. Chris Arthur foundly altered things. The bomb- government in Washington is say-

r I I I I I ' I ' _ ' _ , , , I . I I I - . I I I I - - _ I _ I ‘ I _ , _ , _ I I . I - I - I - I 1 - ' _ ‘ _ ' ,,',.,II.I----- behalf of the “Free World”. ing: We’re waiting for a sign of . |--|_l-I-‘I.-.'.-'--II I I I - - I I I I I _ _I_I ' ‘ _* _ ‘,',' L ,' , ,' . I‘ . I‘l..Il"I‘|_‘-‘-' I ‘ I I . I I I I_I_-_-_-_I_I_‘,'_'.".‘.'I"I‘II I I _ _ _ , , , ._I .LI.I.-I-‘-_-_I_-_Y‘ -' '.'III"'_'_'_‘.'.'.'.‘_ . _ _ , .. Julian Atkinson ings “represent an irreversible qualita- 1...... _<_I_'_',',‘.'.'.‘I‘ I ' . ' I ' I ' I I I _ I I I I I ' ' _',‘_',',',‘.'I'.'.'I . .-_- __._"_|I,'__I~'l|‘l'I‘|-n-<‘l'I'l I I--'I‘I.l. I I I'_'|‘,' '.' ",‘ 'I'I' 'I'I -II I_I, I '. I I I- I I ''''''' III , II 1 '_'_ ‘-'- -I _' .'.“I'I'I' 'I'I'I'- . I - I ‘ ‘I I I_- 'I‘I .'. ,‘, .“.'I'I' good faith from North Vietnam. _ ' . ' . ' I 'I- I _ , I’ *,' .'. _I_I_ _-,‘,','.'.“.' - I call upon people throughout Britain to act for peace I ' I ' I I I I _ . I ' I |\_-_ ,','.‘.'I'I‘I' Michael Barratt Brown .l~I.I'__4- I ‘I , I -I _ , , I I I ~ _I tive leap inasmuch as they reveal _..I- I - " .I I III '.'.“-'.' I 'I I I - - -I--~_',',-,'_',‘.‘.'.'I‘- .II I I I I I_-1- ~ '_'_',',*_'.'.'.'.I *' I I .II4 I I - - - -_- -.1-I -_','_','_‘.‘.'.'." ...|. - 1 II‘I ’I _ _I _ II ‘ I _ _ _ I _ _ , _ , _ , , . , I . I . I . I ._I ._I . _- . I_ ‘ I’ I ' ‘ , "_-[IIIIIIIIIIII._4_'.-I---.'_....,‘|-dull_ _ , , . . . . - - - - - , - . , ...... I . . . . . - - -- I I‘IlI‘I'I‘:-I-I‘______“‘.|‘--|-.'I'|I.I-IPI-I'I-1.-l-IIIIII "I.-I--=|I"_-I‘!-I-1-I.“‘.:_;‘:'—K‘ uh.‘ 1, , .‘-.-_|_|I I This must be translated: We’re wait- - ' ' ' ' , . ' ' I ' I ' I I - I I I I I - * ' ' ' , , ' , ‘ . ‘ ‘ I ' I v I I I I I I I * “ ' ' '_' ‘I ' III -I I ..-5,}I Norman Buchan, M.P. and put an end to our government’s support for atrocities with brutal clearness the fact that l-_-,1,‘ ______I.- , I _I_ , _ , .'I . . I ¢ I I_ -_I_I ,I _',-. 'I‘. Ha...... - I -I_ ~ Neil Carmichael, M.P. the structures of American society ing for North Vietnam to admit de- i 1 resrt on imperialism.” feat, entreat us to stop the bombings, Frankfurt Youth HenryRaYm°"dCollinsCha1“"°1' in Vietmm'. S BERTRAND RUSSELL Up to that point, he holds, the and promise to no longer aid the Lawrence Daly American position was becoming Vietcong. In plain language this Mob US Embassy Iohn Daniels more and more untenable and it means that the Americans are for the Peggy Duff could be hoped “-that the Americans extension of the war. It is neces- A Frankfurt demonstration against Richard Fletcher . I would begin to take account of the sary to grasp this. It is urgent. the war in Vietnam, on March 27th, Ray Gosling “'30 I‘ Ilsa” speak! absurdity of their position” and After grasping it, it is necessary to suffered from careful re-routing Trevor Grifiiths would seek to withdraw. draw conclusions from it. This is upon police instructions. The idea Eric Heffer, M.P. PRESIDENT ]OHNSON’S offer Yet, Mr. Wilson greeted this “ini- But the bombings changed all what I have done.” of the police was to shepherd the Ellis Hillman I of “unconditional” peace talks tiative”. He claimed it proved his this. Sartre came to the conclu- In closing, Sartre describes the marchers outside the most crowded Dave Lambert has been turned by Hanoi and Pek- “behind the scenes” pressure had sion that “the Americans understood U.S. course in Vietnam as “an act areas. To the surprise of the ‘Ralph Miliband ing. This is hardly surprising; the done more good than public denun- nothing and there could be no com- clf open, cynical, complete aggres- organisers, who expected a couple of Stan Mills Americans followed tip this “peace ciation by his Parliamentary critics. mon language between them and us.” sion, without justification or even a hundred supporters, a thousand Jim Mortimer offer” by making the biggest raid yet The reverse would appear to be the He thinks it would be futile for serious alibi.” He agrees that the people turned out on the march. Although the police had forbidden Tom Nairn on the North and by flying danger- case: the very fact that President him to go to America and try to make U.S. is the mightiest military power, ously near the Chinese island of Hai- his voice heard. He sees the entire but he denies that it is “the centre placards which “one-sidedly con- Dick Nettleton mm Next day they landed mo-re Johnson made his offer indicates that Stan Newens, M.P. United States caught up in a war of the world.” It is even the duty demned any of the parties to the Viet- John Rex marines in the most northern pan of the world-wide protest movement 1S fever such as gripped France at the of a European, he contends, to stop nam conflict,” the march was alive Emie Roberts South Vietnam. The offer of aid is having _ some_ effect. Mr. Wilson height of the Algerian war; and. the considering the U.S. as the centre with condemnation of the U. S Alan Rooney‘ unlikely to impress the peoples of should 10111 Lester Pearson. Canada’e voice of opposition being feeble, it and “demonstrate his interest, prove interventionists. Afterwards, at David Steele South East Asia. After all, the Liberal Prime Minister, in calling on doesn’t count. his solidarity with all the Vietnamese, another demonstration at the U.S. E. P. Thompson amount offered is only a small frac- the Ame;-icans to stop 31¢ bQmb1ngs_ Nevertheless he expresses alarm the Cubans, the Africans, all his consulate, numerous " arrests were Tony Topham tion of that used to bolster up the Nobody can regard the Americana about the situation. Effective action friends in the third world who gain made. But Negro soldiers in the Eric Varley, M.P, succession of dictatorships in Viet- 31 a e - til th b b_ against the escalation must take place existence and freedom and who U.S. Occupation Army were im- -William Warbey, M.P. nam. Cambodia found it essential, in mpos S S nous , e om within “three months,” in his prove each day, precisely, that the pressed by those posters which read . Raymond Williams maintaining independence, to reject mgs cease‘ Mr‘ Wllsfm S silence opinion. “The stirring of Ameri- greatest power in the world is incap- “Get out of Vietnam: take care of Bert Wynn American aid long before the present becomes more and more compromis- can opinion can be provoked only by able of imposing its laws, that it is Alabama.” . Konni Zilliacus, M.P. crisis. ing to the whole Labour Movement. I

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Advertisement Three Nations Rally Against CAMBRIDGE the Bomb labour Students Warn Wilson "“"’“'“°CON DEMN WlLSON’S“‘“°"" "“'“' BASLE, Switzerland. _ German, Atomic Weapons Both East and CND PAMPHLETS Q I- Uncle Ho becomes NALSO Sponsor pg WETNM POUCY French and Swiss opponents West,” and others of a more local Apart from “Democracy and the of nuclear weapons plan to meet here nature. IXTY delegates at the National public schools should be taken into Bomb” by Raymond Williams, SAssociation of Labour Student the streets, say by marching on Eton! FORTY-NINE public meetings Monday, April 19th, the day after 1 5 H Which has been reproduced by The Easter, to stage a big demonstration The Basie trade union federations Organisations were in an angry Home Secretary Soskice came i are being held in the next few Week, Cambridge CND has against war and for peaceful col- are actively supporting the march mood at their Conference held from under fire for his actions in the weeks at which Ministers are to produced: laboration among all peoples. Basie and the rally, much to the annoyance cases of Bert Bensen, Delgado and “report back” to their supporters on of the leading newspaper Neue March 29th to April 2nd. Many “The MLF and Joint Control” was the site of the famous 1912 resolutions criticising Government others, and a motion calling for his the Government’-s achievements so by George Rutter. Zurcher Zeitung. This journal far. Last Friday’s meeting at Hamp- Socialist Peace Congress. along with most of the Swiss policies were passed overwhelmingly, replacement was carried. “The End of the Alliance” The anti-nuclear fighters plant to for example the following resolution s The economic and industrial stead Town Hall was addressed by by ]'ohn Gittings come to Basle after participating in press, has persistently denounced Stephen Swingler, Douglas Jay, and the Swiss ,Movement Against Atomic moved by Alan Richardson (Bir- affairs debate centred round three and Richard Gott demonstrations in their own coun- mingham) on the Vietnam crisis had resolutions which were all carried. local candidate Iack Cooper; nearly “The Risks and Limitations of tries against nuclear armaments. Armament as “antimilitaristic” and 300 attended. “Trotskyite - Communist” inspired, only three against. The first ran: “NALSO would Nuclear Strategy” Meeting in the outskirts of the town, “NALSO considers that the oppose any incomes policy of limit- Cooper, speaking first, drew his by Terence Heelas they will march to the square in and has slandered it as being a “tool first applause when he admitted his of Moscow.” American intervention in Vietnam ation on Trade Union rights to de- After Easter it is planned to front of the cathedral. One of the is a blatant attempt to protect the mand higher wages, shorter hours, “one disappointment” to be publish: main speakers will be the chairman Backers of the Movement hope the interests of Imperialism and and better working conditions, except Labour’s policy over Vietnam. The “Europe and the World” of the Cantonal government of that the encouriag-ement offered by therefore demands: that the British as part of the implementation of a Government had abandoned its prin- by Peter Worsley A Basle. — the Basle unions will help inspire Government takes part in no secret programme of nationalisation under ciples over this issue, he said. All these pamphlets are obtainable The demonstration is being spon- similar support for the anti-nuclear negotiations to apportion spheres of workers’ control of all major sectors A resolution calling on the Gov- from: Richard Norman, Queens’ sored by the Swiss Movement movement in Germany. The move- influence in South East Asia; that all of the economy.” ernment to dissociate itself from College, Cambridge. Against Atolriic Armament as the ment there suffered a serious setback British troops be withdrawn from The second: “NALSO would American actions in Vietnam, had No charge is made for them but the climax of a two-and-a—half day when the Social-Democratic party South East Asia; that the Govern- oppose any attack on the shop been distributed by some Labour publishers need donations in order march under such slogans as “Bread gave up its campaign against ment withdraw all support from the stewards’ movement, or any other Party and CND members at the door to continue this valuable service to for the Peoples’ _- “Not War,” “atomic death”; and since then the American intervention; that the limitation on the right of workers to of the meeting- Ralph Miliband the movement. “Switzerland to Act for Denuclear- unions in Germany have been reluct- Government should urge the terms organise themselves and strike, attempted to move it in question ised Zones in Europe,” “Against ant to support anti-nuclear activities. of the Geneva agreement of I954 be officially or unoflicially.” titne. The Chairman ruled it out of implemented immediately, with par- The third pledged NALSO to sup- order, despite vigorous protests ticular reference to the holding of port all workers in struggles for from about a third of those present. elections in South Vietnam. workers’ control and management. The meeting then alternated Conference wholeheartedly sup- In moving the resolutions between questions on Vietnam, and ports the popular movement of the Tony Brewer (Cambridge) pointed on home policy. The former received Vietnamese people (the National out that it was impossible a strange response -- Douglas Jay Liberation Front) in their struggle to limit profits in a capitalist contented himself with saying that against American aggression. economy without distorting the one could not support everything *._-__\_“—'_'—t . _ ~__ the Americans did, without specify- As a further mark of disgust with mechanism of investment and hence producing inefficiency. Therefore the ing what he did, and did not support. Western actions, NALSO elected Ho Most striking was his reluctance to I|.__r"-‘T,’ proposal amounted to a wage res- Chi Minh an Honorary Vice- put forward the Government’s policy President of NALSO, with the high- traint measure. In any case there was implied in such a policy control of support for the Americans, enun- est vote of all the Vice-Presidents. ciated by s Harold Wilson and In order to ‘emphasise what damage over the Unions by the State which meant a blunting of the power and Michael Stewart in =tlie Commons this issue had done in the move- only the day before. ment, Conference carried by a nar- initiative of working class institu- ®%i row majority a motion proposed by tions which is quite unacceptable. The chairman was induced by the Regan Scott, warning the Govern- In the closing hour, the Confer- feeling in the hall to make clear that ment that many people are so dis- ence was united in indignation Hampstead Labour Party GMC had illusionedand angered by the syco- against Wilson when the news came three times passed resolutions criti- phantic support of the United States that half-a-million pounds was to be cising American policy in Vietnam, in Vietnam, that they cannot be given to the Churchill fund. A tele- .and had sent telegrams of protest to counted upon to work for the Labour gram was despatched to No. Io, Wilson going further than the pro- Party at a future General Election. condemning the gift to the anti- posed resolution in condemnation. Solidarity was expressed with the working class reactionary’s fund, He recognised that the resolution Madrid students’ campaign for free- especially in view of the alleged had “a sizeable body of support” in shortage of funds for pensioners. the hall, and reverted to the subiecr ll‘ dom and a protest about the -'. fin Labour Government’s inaction in The new Executive is going to yet again in his closing remarks. \.\ i the case of Vic Allen was passed. convene a Conference towards the Vietnam was the live issue in this Vic Allen was elected an Honorary end of June to which all Labour meeting, hanging somewhat omin- Vice-President. Ian Mikardo was Party members are invited to discuss ousl_y over everything, and creating elected Honarary President in place the Labour Government’s record. obvious conflicts of loyalty. But an of Tony Greenwood. The new Chairman, Mike Harloe effective protest was made, and , . (Worcester College, Oxford) would could usefully be repeated at the \_\\_\ In the education debate it was ‘_ _. like to hear from anyone interested. other public meetings. suggested that the campaign against .-/"" i ' Chris Arthur MICHAEL RUSTIN “We Shall Overco-o-ome”

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_ 4 ALGERIANS SUPPORT VIETNAMESE AID BURDEN CRIPPLESNE\V NATIONS (The following editorial, trans- perialists persisting in their aggres- ingly threaten to unleash a world A SPECIAL report from A.I.D.-- was nearly 10,000 million dollars in Alliance For Progress,” the Bank was lated from the March zoth issue of sion, but they are committing more catastrophe._ Any. giving way is a the ~ American government 1955, and soared to nearly 3o,ooo actually taking too million dollars a the Algiers daily Le Peuple, indicates numerous and more odious crimes. victory of imperialism which counts Agency for International Develop- million dollars year. By 1975 year more out of Latin America thanJ the attitude of the Ben Bella govern- Thus the puppet Tshombe, still sup- precisely on the “force of habit” and ment_said that developing coimtries it would have tripled to 9o,ooo mil- it was putting in. ment and the Algerian people to the ported R by the Belgo-Americans, its ominous effects in such circum- are suffering very much under the lion dollars if the current rate of bor- A.I.D. said that Turkey illustrated American imperialist aggression in without the aid of whom he would stances. burden of loans, mainly from the rowing continued. the problem “in its most advanced Vietnam). . long ago have been liquidated by the As for Algeria, she never gave up U_nited States. The situation steadily The report admitted, that the loan prospect for 1 965 would absorb half Congolese people, continues to utilize deteriorated as more loans were being terms of the United States were very of the expected Turkish eamings 6 6 YOU can get used to anything,” during the eight years of the war for foreign mercenaries to suppress them, liberation imposed by colonialism. made out to them. These countries hard. The “minimum interest from merchandise exports.” In a popular saying has it. Are and is multiplying his assassinations are now paying back more than rate” which was endorsed by the U.S. India, another country which has we then going to become accustomed Now free, thanks to the perseverance in order to perpetuate the exploita- and the spirit of sacrifice of which 5,ooo million dollars a year, compared Congress last year nieant that the received large amounts of “aid” from to the crimes of imperialism, to the tion of his masters, the monopolists to less than 1,000 million dollars IO U. S. Treasury would eventually the U. S., the foreign debt was rapidly assassination of Congolese patriots, to the Algerian people gave proof, our of Washington and Brussels. Still country does not intend, for its years ago, 30% of the “assistance” receive I.53 dollars back for each rising and was likely to be nearly 6 the bombing of peaceful villages in worse, believing that he now has the which the developing countries re- dollar loaned. Under the “Hard billion C dollars by next year. It the Democratic Republic of Vietnam? part, to close its eyes to the situation “well in hand” in the manoeuvres and aggressions of the ceived in 1964 was wiped out by Terms” of the U.S. Import-Export might have to devote a quarter of all When the armed aggression of the Congo, and in accordance with the imperialists, who in the Congo, in interest payments on past loans. In Bank (5-%% for 13 years) U.S. loans its export earnings during the next Belgo-American imperialists in the advice of imperialism which wants to Palestine and in Vietnam place our I955 the figure was 8 %. The total to Latin American governments in five years to pay off the debt. first part of November enabled sabotage African unity and to re- own freedom in danger, inasmuch as foreign debt of developing nations the I95os “are now a drag on the Keith Bloor Tshombe to re-establish his tottering conquer its lost positions no matter they strike at the freedom of our positi-on, there was a general outcry what the price, this puppet is now brothers and seek to sabotage our M of indignation among the peoples con- attacking the neighbouring coun- unity and to provoke a world war. cerned about freedom and peace. In- tries, and his repeated aggressions numerable meetings were held against Uganda and Congo-Brazza- The consistency of the struggle of APARTHEID throughout the world, particularly in ville betray the real objectives of our people and our leaders is to be Algiers, to denounce the foreign those who work the strings on which seen in the recent meeting at Con- intervention and to demand an im- he dangles. akry, where President Ben Bella SHARPENS ITS mediate halt to it. p Intense activity Far from disappearing, the threat worked to block imperialism, in our stirred the chancellories of the coun- in Africa is only growing and becom- firm attitude with regard to the neo- Q‘? CLAWS tries concerned, particularly the ing more definite_-imperialism is be- corlonialist manoeuvres in Palestine, African countries. R coming more virulent, encouraged by in our complete support to the It its first successes. The situation is patriots of South Vietnam. In like - ---1..--.1-1'.-ct-.‘.I.'-.."..\_4.J' |.*.‘.-..'."J- _|_.‘-.-._--'-.'-.*.'n-l- On Monday, February 8th, the worse than last November after the rnanner, our representative at the “escalation” (in plain words, the fall of Stanleyville. S United Nations tirelessly appeals for THE racist and colonial regimes been established and new trade agree- FORMER NATO Commander-in day after the beginning of the of South Africa, Southern In Vietnam, thirty school children concrete measures against the ments between them came into force Chief, US General Lauris Nor- dumping of tons of bombs on the colonialism of Salazar and the racism Rhodesia and Portugal have been on April ist. Five specific agree-C stad, recently visited South Africa. peaceful and defenseless North Viet were murdered a few days ago, stepping up their collusion in an killed by bombs made in the USA. of Verwoerd. ments were alm concluded between In an interview with South African namese inhabitants), the press fea attempt to resist the increasing oppo- Regularly, and each time farther to South Africa and Portugal. A new Sunday Express, Norstad revealed tured the event in “scare” headlines But Algeria’s consistent policy, sition to their policies by the African agreement between the South African that the South African regitne planned and the number of columns was in- the north, American planes violate peoples, among others, and to pro- the territory of the Democratic which is likewise followed by other airways and the Portuguese airline to buy more aircraft to supress the sufficient for the progressive news- progressive countries, will be long their colonial rule in the to operate their air services in joint South African people and threaten papers to speak out against the Republic of Vietnam, bombing this southern part of Africa, according to peaceful country. ~ crowned with success the sooner all partnership was reached. r other African countries. i criminal aggression of U.S. imperi- the peoples, all the revolutionary the Dar - e - Salaam newspaper, The South African Airways have alism. The Pentagon aggressors even forces, energetically face imperial- Nationalist, on April 6th. been banned from flying over all in- Commenting on Norstad’s visit to publicly avow their intention of con- The report said that a new trade dependent African states since 1963, Today, the news concerning these ism, the sooner world public opinion, South Africa, Z. B. Molete, Secret- tinuing this warmongering and pact had been signed recently be- and have consequently used Portu- questions is relegated to page nine, the power of which needs no under- ary for publicity and information to criminal policy indefinitely. Here, lining in the twentieth centry, refuses tween South Africa and Southem guese airports at Luanda of Angola, the Pan-Africanist Congress of sometimes the space is doled out too, the progressive and peace- Rhodesia, “apparently as a buttress” in the Canary Islands, and Lisbon en grudgingly. Perhaps as a result, to give up, to lose interest in the South Africa, said that US invest- minded forces have not yet rnade crimes of Tshombe-’s mercenaries, in the event of unilateral declaration route to Europe. ments in South Africa had sharply public opinion has little by little lost imperialism retreat; instead, it of “independence” by the Southern interest. The protests have become the hangings in Pretoria, the police The report pointed out that “by increased in recent years, reaching seems to be hardening in its aggres- raids of Salazar, the U.S. “escala- Rhodesian white minority regime. A pooling their markets and military two hundred and fifty million pounds so rare that one could imagine the siveness. new loan was granted to the Southern problems had been resolved. tion” in Vietnam, the misery of the and technical assistance, the three sterling. US _.investments now occu- The repetition of the crime does Palestinian refugees, and in general Rhodesian regime. A new com- governments hope to hold out a little pied second place among foreign Nevertlieless nothings has S been not make it less reprehensible. all the crimes of an imperialism whose mittee to expand trade among South longer against boycotts and arms ’ em- investments in South Africa. Britain settled, neither in the Congo nor in Resignation must not give the stamp virulence increases the nearer it Africa, Portugal, Mozambique, bargoes.” - t holds top place. Angola and Southern Rhodesia had Vietnam, and not only are the im- of1' acceptance to actions that increas- approaches its end. L i S Y S x Bill Keaton s G. Powe ______.._._._i.,_,.__ ._.._.._._.._;..__.__...___.-in,.

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0 _2' International Finance ’ WORKERS‘ CONTROL sweat the Budget out A new Public School pleased with the Budget §;°‘“ I)UNROBIN CASTLE, ancestral ave Windsor home of the Earls of Sutherland, I Ne" $*eP§ in the <=<=ImP¢Ii9fl Mi’.;,‘I,il§i§f‘§d§§.§i‘;.‘?§i3;R§i‘iY.‘: 1 THE Financial Times has done a devaluation in the foreseeable future. is to become an independent board- cial Times, had some advice, in that survey of the reactions of inter- They reserved a particularly warm in school for boys. Its owner, the from Alan Rooney paper’s April 9th issue: Countess of Sutherland, stated that '0- national finance to Mr. Callaghan’s welcome for his undertaking to re- “For those who want to escape to J Budget. strict capital export by £100 million she believes its magnificent situation TWO most important meetings on Richard Fletcher, I Plantation Drive, recover from the Budget”. It appears The paper’s correspondents inter- a year. provides an ideal setting for a school the su-bj-eot of Industrial Anlaby Park, Hull. that “. . . the Bahamas is the place viewed leading bankers in the main Dr. H. I. Abs, of Deutschebank, of “distinctive character”. Some idea Democracy are scheduled for the next The second conference will take to go. financial centres of the world. I said in an interview that Mr. Callag- of what is meant by this is given by two months. Both are designed to place on Saturday, June 19th, and “This is not just-because they are have given a selection of their han had Been tough and had shown a press hand-out issued by the follow up the seminar“ which took Sunday, June 20th, at the A.E.U. without income tax, capital gains replies. his earnest determination to master private company which owns Dun- robin Castle. place last April, in Nottingham. District Oflice, 120 Rusholme Road, tax or land tax; nor because, though In Zurich and Brussels the Britain’s difficultiesi. He said he was There, 140 people, including union Manchester I3. On this occasion some prices are high, those of drink Budget was regarded as a serious optimistic about the future of ster- The school will aim to give a leaders, shop-stewards, academics, the aim is to highlight some further and cigarettes at least are cheap . . . attempt to meet Britain’s immediate ling though the Labour Government Christian education relevant to and editors of a number of socialist crucial areas where the demand for “It is because the Bahamas -- and problems, if no more than that. still had to show it could bring about today, concentrated on training for and radical papers, gathered for workers’ control and industrial the necessary increase in productivity. the West Indies -- being part of the The most favourable reaction has gpersonal responsibility and service the most extended and serious discus- democracy is especially relevant -to sterling area, are among the few Twenty-four hours after Mr. to community, it says. Put another present-day developments, Groups certainly been that of the U.S. sion on workers’ control to have Callaghan’s Budget statement, in- way, it could be read as preparing will meet on the dock industry, the sunny spots where UK residents can Bankers. They were pleased that the taken place since the ninteen twen- b_uy property without the new formed opinion in Paris judges that sons of the rich for their future role ties. aircraft industry, existing nationalised extra taxation was £50m. over that the degree of austerity and deflation rigours of exchange control which as members of the ruling class. industries, "with ta follow-up group expected. In Washington--and even decided upon has probably been suf- The next two conferences, like on the steel industry. On Sunday, Mr. Callaghan has imposed on UK more in European centres like ficient to satisfy Central bankers and Special emphasis will be given to last year’s, are sponsored by the Voice June 20th, the conference will dis- buyers of foreign land and houses. Paris, Bonn and The Hague—there Finance Ministers on the Continent, modern languages, history, geog- newspapers. In May, in co-operation cuss Incomes Policy and Workers’ The new villas coming up for sale on was relief that the Chancellor had but only just. French officials still raphy and science, and to activities with the political committee of the Control: What should a labour move- Great Exuma Island, for example, not handed out any more social apparently believe that the U.K. springing from the environment. London C0-operative Society, a sem- ment’s response be? At 1.30 p.m. can be quite freely bought by any- security benefits. , Among German Government should have taken Whether the latter includes grouse inar will consider problems of democ- a Brains Trust, consisting of a panel one with £7,000 or £8,000 of ster- blankets, the Budget was definitely sterner measures still to cut back de- shooting, we are not told. racy in the industries of the public of prominent Northern M.P.s, Trade ling to sell. seen as proof that the Labour Gov- mand in the economy, and in some The new public school, which sector. The meeting will take place in Unionists, etc., will answer ques- “The Bahamas and West Indies ernment will defend sterling, though quarters the line is being purveyed will open in September with 60 13- London on May 8th-9th. Delegation tions on the theme of industrial may now have to absorb some of the there is no inclination to think that that Britain may yet be forced into year-old boys, is cheap as schools applications, to Tony Topham and democracy. British demand for villas in the sun the troubles of sterling have been devaluation of the pound, or at least go, costing only £450 per year. which has been met in recent years solved. into more stringent measures later. It appears that its sponsors are by Spain and other countries. High Common Market officials Mr. Callaghan has not been able not put off by the Government’s “In the past few years the fashion felt that Mr. Callafhatfs Budget had to convince leading Dutch financial FOR CONSIDERATION for foreign villas has caught on. promised sufiicient economic re- pledge to integrate such schools into DRAFT PROGRAMME experts that he will manage to pre- the state educational system. Already an acre in central Las straint to satisfy Britain’s foreign vent a forced sterling devaluation A Voice Correspondent writes: Topham, I Plantation Drive, Palmas can fetch {Ii million and a creditors and remove all possibility of some time later this year. ' i Pat ]ordan Anlaby Park, Hull. foot of frontage on to the beach is “On this occasion we are not ask- worth £20. The i“p0pular priced” Summaries of ideas received will ing people to submit individual holiday houses have spread south- papers for circulation. Instead _we be presented to the conference. In WORKERS’ CONTROL the case of aircraft and the docks wards down the Spanish Coasts and MR. GUNTER'S LIFE AMBITION should welcome from any intending many have been bought by the SEMINAR p31~ti¢ip=an_t, or indeed anyone who (where the chief new ground is being from a Parliamentary Correspondent dealing with the trade union. British. The rich have continued to Union Voice thinks he has something to say, _to broken) special issues of Aviation and HE Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Sir Iohn Hobson, former Tory Dockers’ Voice, containing draft settle for the South of France. T0 is sponsoring a school submit ideas on the different topics channel British demand to new TGunter, told the standing com- Attorney General, pointed out that as follows:—- I programmes, and incorporating sug- mittee which is considering the the Bill extended an immunity from on C gestions received will appear before developments overseas, specialised _on the future of ownership and companies have sprung up in Trades Dispute Bill at the House of the ordinary law ~of the land not workers’ control in the aircraft the conference, and will be sent (on Commons on April 8th that he did merely to trade union officials. act- receipt of the conference fee) to all London - Previews Limited for INDUSTRIAL industry, to the Editor, Aviation houses in the Canaries, or a com- not believe that trade unions should ing on behalf of members in the applicants. be above or outside the law. negotiations on the terms and con- Voice, 8 Ashkirk Street, Man- pany called Spain Only which takes DEMOGRAGY chester I8 (by April 24'Eh)_5 “Whether or not you submit sug- He said; “I would consider it my ditions of their employment, but to aircraft-loads of prospective buyers life’s achievement if we could get -on the future of ownership and gestions, we should like to receive a to view properties on the Spanish any person becoming involved in a May 8th and 9th in London the law on industrial relations prop- workers’ control in the docks, to completed application form, if you seaside.” . trade dispute. Employers’ associa- Delegation Fee 5 /- e the Editor, Dockers’ Voice, 71 intend to be present. Credentials erly adjusted to modern society. We tions and their officials would also New King’s Road, London, and copies olf_ appropriate journals Now, it appears that these want to take a long, cool look at the benefit. A Session on l S.W.6; will be sent on receipt of the form companies will transfer their activi- problem and come to terms with it. Attacking the Bill, he claimed that SOCIAL OWNERSHIP --on the Steel Industry’s future ties to such places at the Bahamas. I want to see the law brought into it put a weapon in the hands of trade and a conference fee of 5 / -, if appli- Sponsored by management system, to Council- cation is made before the end of All this goes to show that with the proper order and the trade unions unionists to force other men, l~0r W. Meade, 31 Far Lane, May.” present system the rich can always embraced in it --~ neither outside through intimidation to join a trade London C0-operative Society Sheffield 6; t get round rules and regulations. nor above the law.” union against their will. -on the Incomes Policy question If you are able to obtain delegate Only the stringent application of Mr. Gunter said he was notwith- o The Bill, which reverses the Credentials from Conoenors: I Plantation Drive, " to Ken Coates, I9 Greenfield status from your local Labour Party, Government action combined with out sympathy with those who Rookes v. Barnard decisions, passed Street, Dunkirk, Nottingham; Trade Union branch, Co-operative workers’ control can prevent the thought more protection might _be through its committee stage without Analby Park, Hull. --on self-management in existing Society, etc., please indicate this op rich from using their resources to required for the individual in his any amendments. nationalised industry, to Tony your application. 5 Iill Westby _,.,_i _ _ ! __ _ A _ i i ______i ______~______._ ;,,______|_,,,,,__.__;.-__... . _ ___ -.,_ ._ . '__._____..__.. ___. _. 7 -_ __.__ -_.. H

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1 SOME Civil Service Unions have not discriminated against in any way from William McIlroy* it ‘- ’ been decidedly coy about Mr. in pay matters. MR. LEO ABSE, MP, was the Brown’s Declaration of Intent. One I told you that the document guest of honour at the 59th result is reported in the Journal of the would be before the Stafl Side at Annual Dinner of the National Secu- it was unfair to nationalise as they Ministry of Labour Staff Association. their meeting on March ,,4th, after APARTHEID EXPOSED too possessed private property and lar Society held on March zoth. Mr. An exchange between the Staff side which I would let you know their Tribe, president of the Society, who voted for those wh-o had been and the Financial Secrteary to the formal position. I now do so. Blame me on History “l(affirs are Livelier” trained to lead. One of Tressal’s introduced Mr. Abse as ‘the MP for Treasury runs as follows: The Staff Side endorsed the views human relations’, and referred to by Bloke Modisane, Panther 5/- by O. Walker; Muller, 21 /- characters shows us “ . . . a man MACHINERY OF PRICES AND which I expressed to you and re- lying on the ground, covered with the work Mr. Abse had done for INCOMES POLICY iterated the point put to you in their divorce law reform, improvement of “THERE are very few things 0LIVER WALKER is a South blood, with a lot of Liberal and Tory At the National Staff Side there letter of 7th ?anuary:— s which can be as irritating as Africanpin exile, His latest book”" working men kickin’ ’im, jumpin’ on was a discussion on the Statement of “The Stafi Side do not think prison conditions, and the imple- the smug understanding of those has been given the accolade of being ’im., and stampin’ on ’is face with Intent and whether the pay principles that the pay principles which mentation -of the section of the jokers who profess to know what it banned in his former homeland. Mr. their hobnail boots. The bloke on as operated in the Civil Service were operate in the Civil Service are in Wolfenden Report relating to homo- would like to be black in South Walker has written ta journalist’s the ground is a socialist, and the in conflict with that statement. conflict with the Statement of sexuality. People claimed that the Africa . . . I submit, respectfully, account of the political changes that reason they’re kickin’ ’is face in is The Secretary General had had Intent. The principles, and the public were not ready for such pro- that it is beyond academic compre- have occurred in South Africa. He is because ’e said that the only differ- previous discussions with the Finan- machinery, have been well tried and gressive changes -- but Mr. Abse’s hension.” I agree. We have heard particularly interesting when dealing ence between Slumrent and Man- cial Secretary to the Treasury and do no more than ensure that in share of the poll increased at every what happens there: here we are with the relations between Rhodesia, driver was that they was both alike.” following his report the Staff Side general "Civil Service pay does not election. shown the reaction of one man, and the Portuguese colonies and South Things could be worse than they are came to a decision which is recorded fall behind outside pay move- On March 23rd, the NSS issued a although without the experience Africa. today. C in the following letter which Mr. ments.” statement calling for a ‘diplomatic we shall probably not understand, It is interesting how closely T. Newman Richard Hayward sent to the They will watch very closely the formula which will speedily termin- if you want a glimmering of the parallels can be drawn between Financial Secretary. development land operation of the ate . . . operations in Vietnam’. The appalling effects of doubting one’s Salazar and Verwoerd. Both were On 11th February you were good new machinery and they reserve their statement also called on the Govern- own humanity, feeling deprived and university lecturers. V e r w o e er d enough to hand me, for the informa- right to make representations on its ment to drastically reduce military emasculated as Bloke Modisane felt, received his Ph.D. for a thesis on tion of the Stafi Side, a copy of Her application lto the Civil Service commitments overseas and use then read this devastatingly honest “Experimental Study on the Blunting Majesty’s Command Paper “Machin- as and when they consider the instead its resources for housing, book. If you do, for it is not a of the Emotions”. However, -Ver- ery oFPrices and Incomes Policy.” moment appropriate.” health and education. pleasant experience to be shown a woerd is not just relying on psy- INTERNATIONAL pIn our brief, but informal, discus- The reason for the apprehension * General Secretary, National man who comes to feel that, if he is chology, he has been gaining allies sion I stressed the importance which of the MLSA is clear. The tendency Secular Society. to be human, he must try to be white, and preparing his army ___ the arms SOCIALIST the Staff Side attach to < the independ- to use workers in the public sector as who is tormented into becoming as budget was raised from R71.5 million ence of the Civil Service Arbitration pay policy guinea pigs was very pro- depraved as the society he lives in, in 1961-2 to R157 million in 1963-4 JOURNAL Tribunal machinery and I went on to nounced tmder the Tories. The (one Rand equals IO shillings). add that the Staff Side would wish loss of ground made in those I 3 and who 6 adopts the un-name 1" The clear message that this book *1 to ensure that their constituents were years has still not been recovered. “Bloke” in place of his original Year 2 - Number 7 “William”. His attempts to escape spells out is that the white-suprema- from his blackness are futile, as that cists are prepared to fight and that Two New LRD Pflmrhleis-' is the wrong thing to escape from, militarily the odds might well be Emile R; Braundi and eventually he leaves the country. with them, International trade and a strategy suolvrnn HOURS AND Jean Holman M. Jackson for the working classes Woodworkers‘ Peace Initiative S LONGER HOLIDAYS Theodor Prager Two possible strategies from James Smith 6d. (9d-. ’p.f.) 7 Lelio Basso ECONOMIC LEAGUE The Ragged-Trousered Social democracy today TWO interesting defence resolu- Raynes Park Branch Resolved- Philanthropists Goran Therborn tions have been submitted by “Conference recognises the neces- 6d. (9d. p.f.) Fidel Castro: Declaration of Power in the kingdom of Sweden Woodworkers’ branches for their sity of reducing the armaments Santiag-o—1 /- r by Robert Tressal; Panther, 7/6 Sebastian Herkommer Annual Conference. They are from expenditure to solve Britain’s econ- E. J. Hobsbawn: Labouring Men THOSE who have not read this Working class political consciousness Anniesland and Raynes Park omic problems. We call for a with- And the May tissue of LABOUR --£2/15/0 Socialist classic have no excuse Antonio Jose Saraiva branches “and read as follows: drawal of troops from foreign bases, RESEARCH monthly journal G. D. H. Cole: Chartist Portraits since the production of this paper- Anniesland Branch--Resolved- and support the right of native _35/. Portugal contains an article explaining the back. The story is of the lives of a Tom Nairn C “That this Conference calls on the peoples to self-determination.” Carried Essays in Local _C-overnment — group of house-painters in Southern Labour Govermnent to embark on a. unanimously. Members present, I4. NEW RENT BILL in question edited by Ellis H|llman—15/- The Labour Government in peril and answer form. 1s. (is. 3d. p.f.) England at the turn of the century. Lucien Rey policy that will drastically reduce The REAL Cuba as three military expenditure -- particularly Commenting on the second, the Canadians Saw lt—2/- It gives a less usual view of Edward- The crisis in sterling ian “affluence”, that of the working overseas military expenditure. The Standing Orders Connnittee has Add 10% to cover postage. S Jean Marie Vincent class. Problems of socialist strategy money saved can thus be used to pay recommended that it be withdrawn Order from Pioneer Book Service, for essential social services at home, in favour of thefirst. Many will hope LRD PUBLICATIONS LTD. Box No. 985, The Week, The book shows the blind stupid- ' 78 Blackfriars Road, S.E.I. 54 Park Road, Nottingham ity of those workers who identified and contribute to the solution of the this does not happen, because with their bosses rather than with Price 4/6 per issue--£1 for 6 issues economic problems of Britain.” - Raynes Park is making a much more their workmates, who thought that 19 Greenfield St., Dunkirk, Nottm. Votes for, 27; votes against, nil~. specific demand than is the other Members present 29. branch.

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