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'watching' S.LL. in

By Michael Banda

Workers Press no. 157, 7 May 1970 · scan page 2

Topics: Police and the courts, Socialist Labour League and the WRP, Vietnam and Indochina

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1859: French invade Indo-China.

France in Europe.

proclaim Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

bureaucracy.)

military supplies to be sent to Indo-China.

back into Indo-China. which IS nOW 'BLACKLEGGING' on the five-week-old strike : kington's St Helens glassworks was yesterday cu bare minimum after three days of renewed mass | ing.

Several hundred strikers arrived early in the morning to flank the main entrance St Helens 'scabs' retreat Pilto a cketLenin Two lectures to mark the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth one production worker a further two moves second BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER I ITS attempt to whip up a witch-hunt around the dismissal of Rosemary Whippe from Girling's Bromborough factory, the capitalist bress has several times hinted at 'police investigations' even though no question of any offence by her or anyone else had arisen.

In the few days since then, SLL members in the Yorkshire area have been subjected to a persistent campaign of police surveillance.

The neighbours of one young woman member in Sheffield report that over last weekend her flat was constantly watched by a man in plain clothes and by officers in a police van.

PRETEXT In Bradford an engineering worker found that the comings and goings to and from his flat were under continuous observation.

Last Tuesday evening, plain clothes officer entered a meeting of Huddersfield Young Socialists on the pretext of looking for some fictitiously named YS member, in fact only to note who was present.

Then, on Wednesday at 5.20 a.m., on the way to pick up Wowers Press from Leeds r way st tion. leading memper was stopped in his car what the police called routine check of all vehicles in the area.

Exactly two minute later this check on all vehicle had disappeared completely.

Are the police carrying out a campaign, started press, to intimidate SLL and YS members and to create an atmosphere where the SLL is regarded as some sort of conspiracy, instead of a political organization openly campaigning with the Workers Press?

And are they not showing the same crude disregard to the rights of the individual as did the press men who pursued Rosemary Whippe ?

What is more important: do these investigations have the Home Office sanction?

intenary Monday, May 11, 7.30 p.m. "Theory-practice and the revolutionary party' Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m. « Lenin and the coming English Revolution' Both lectures will be given by G. HEALY, national secretary of the BEAVER HALL Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 ar Mansion House tube stati

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