LCC COUNCILLOR GREETS THE NEWSLETTER

The Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 52, 10 May 1958 · scan page 4

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Published by Peter Fryer, 180, Clapham High St., London, S.W.4 Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (1.U.), r.o. 180 Clapham High St., London, Among other messages of greetings on The Newsletter’s first anniversary. we have received_one from Coun. E. S. Hillman, of London County Council, which says:

‘Best wishes to The Newsletter on its first anniversary. This much-needed socialist journal deserves the support of every thinking socialist in. the Labour movement.’

Greetings from Michael Foot, editor of Tribune, and from the American novelist Howard Fast, were published in last week’s issue.

‘NO ONE WILL TURN OUT, SAID RIGHT WING Rank-and-file Labour Party and Communist Party members joined in Leeds Trades Council’s 120-strong march through ~ the city last Saturday, with posters saying ‘Support the London Busmen’, ‘Black the Bomb’ and ‘An End to the Tory Government’.

-E TU Blacked the Albert Hall however, all Kensington would be deprived of light.

Brisk inter-union liaison resulted in the busmen and. taximen announcing that they would not put down passengers near the Hall, while Underground railwaymen undertook not to stop their trains at the stations nearest it.

The Hall authorities were desperate: there were evening concerts arranged, and in a few days’ time the great Victory Ball...

‘Could he possibly . . .?”

They appealed to the Government to help. The Government appealed to George (‘Could Mr Lansbury possibly make it convenient to come to the Board of Trade at once?’); and his reply was—‘If we can have the hall, the ETU will, I.am sure, restore the light.’ ;

The Government asked the Hall authorities to change their minds about honouring the Herald booking. This was done. The lights went on again. , The Herald meeting assembled 12,000 people in the Albert Hall, and thousands more were turned away. Lansbury remarked that the incident had shown ‘how dependent all of us are on ordinary workaday people’.