'Quislings' shout at Labour Party rents meeting

IN ISLINGTON, North London, tenants have hit back against the betrayals of the Labour group there who have voted 34-20 for implementation of the 'fair rents' Bill.

On Wednesday night the Labour council held a meeting to explain the Bill to tenants. It never went as the two councillors speaking wanted it to go.

From the beginning tenants made it clear that to vote for the Bill and then come along and tell them what it was all about was not on.

'You're implementing Tory policies,' shouted one voice from the back as deputy leader of the councii, Bill Bayliss, was in the middle of his speech. 'If I wanted policies like that I'd vote As councillor Bayliss finished the oldest tenant in the hall, Mr Robert Taylor, rose to his : feet and pointed an accusing finger at the platform.

'In the election last year you said you would fight all rent increases and yet you've gone straight to the government, to the moneylenders, ' he shouted.

'You've sold the people down the river-right the way down. Let's get back to the old days of principles and tought by emi he said to applause.

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Amount ( closed f would like information abou THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE, 186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG. Name Address Mr Bayliss was forced to these accusations.

'No one in this hall has worked harder on the doorstep on the street corners against this Bill', he claimed.

'Now we are faced with the Bill as the law of the country, and in England laws are usually implemented. The question now is who is going to be responsible for implementing it—the council or the Housing Commissioner.

•When you get to the stage when it is law the hollering and shouting has to finish and it is time for cool, cold, calm thinking. I am convinced that a Labour-controlled Islington council could implement the Bill far better than the Housing Commissioner' This attempt to whitewash the decision to implement the Bill did not convince anyone.

There were political questions involved, not just the choice of who was going to implement.

Harry Weston, chairman of Islington Council Tenants' and Private Tenants' Action Group made this clear when he spoke to the meeting.

'We've got to fight this Bill -but how can you do this when the council capitulates?

'The Tories will want their pound of flesh and I don't believe councillor Bayliss when he says he can soften the blow.

"The burning question is: we must fight. The people of Islington need leadership to take the movement on to the streets and go for the Tories.

'If the councillors refuse to be the rent-collectors, the tools of The dally paper that loads the fight again the Tories. reply chairman of the Islington