Investigation by Stephen
1972Stephen Johns Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
OVER THE past two weeks, Chapeltown, a dilapidated immigrant area near the centre of Leeds, has been racked by a bitter controversy.
The centre of the storm is a ramshackle children's centre called Studley Grange. The Grange has become a symbol for the more militant black inhabitants of Chapeltown who want to take control of the building from the white and largely middle-class executive committee that controls it.
But apart from highlighting the legitimate--if very modestdemands of the black population of Leeds, the Studley Grange affair has revealed a political alliance between the International Marxist Group and a leading Leeds Liberal called Maureen Baker.
One of the first fruits of this totally unprincipled 'tactical marriage' has been a false and slanderous attack on the Socialist Labour League and Studley Grange's warden, Joss Browning.
The story begins in 1966 when a group of local mothers, mainly West Indian, found premises at 55 Louis Street, Chapeltown, for a pre-school play group and appointed a West Indian superVISOr.
Gradually, as the centre attracted more money from charities and from the Leeds council, control of the premises fell into the hands of white, largely middle-class people who lived outside the Chapeltown area. The Grange's present executive committee reflects this development. It contains a doctor, an education officer, a bank manager, a minister and a Labour councillor who lives in comfortable detached house miles from the Subscribe!
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