Leaders backing down
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We must clear the traitors out, both from the unions and the Labour Party because, don't forget, it was the Labour government that tried to pass an Act against the unions. We need a new leadership that is determined and won't back down. We must get rid of this government and make the Labour government nationalize the industries.
Eric Bogle agreed that everything Workers Press said about the union leaders was true. The leaders are backing down, he said.
'Workers Press is a good paper to read because there is a lot of truth in it. That is why Scanlon and others like him don't like it. They are cowards.' A series which appeared now available as a pamphlet in the Socialist Labour League Pocket Library. 'WHY A LABOUR GOVERNMENT? A Reply to some centrist critics.' Price 5p