ANTI-H-BOMB WEEK COULD BE DECISIVE
1958The NewsletterNorman Tennant 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.
Your open letter; appearing in last week’s issue, should be sent to all constituency Labour Parties and ‘trade union Branches in the country:
. Reports. from. meetings in every. town. indicate. the overwhelming .support for a positive policy to meet the H-bomb “menace.What is lacking is a decisive lead. . Demonstrations, poster parades and petitions are useful expressions of opinion, but they must be linked with direct measures of industrial action if the Tory. Government is to be defeated ‘in its war preparations.
_ A National Anti-H-Bomb Week, in which every form’ of protest would be brought into play, could be decisive in this struggle.
A week. in. which mass meetings were backed ‘by strike ; actions could bring down the Tory Government and return a Labour administration under conditions in which it would be forced to take a positive lead on both the H-bomb and rocket bases. .