APPEAL TO TRADE UNIONISTS. TO RESIST

The Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 73, 18 October 1958 · scan page 4

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EVICTIONS:

Norwood (Lambeth) Labour Councillors and parliamentary candidate have advised all tenants served with eviction. notices not to sign any agreement till they have got in touch with Norwood Labour Party.

‘We say: do not be frightened into ‘giving up your home, their statement declares. ‘We do not recognize the right of landlords to take away the roof over the heads of working people and disrupt family life.

“We appeal to all trade unionists, Labour people and good neighbours to rally to the support of those faced with the arrival of the bailiff.’

GUARDED CRITICISM OF RIGHT WING—BUT Jt has its eyes on the tycoons of industry and on the Press, not on the needs of the ordinary people. They are just election-fodder, for whom, in private, the Right wing has the deepest contempt.

At the same time the Right wingers are overawed by ‘thinkers’ who have won esteem by working out elaborate theories for explaining away and ‘correcting’ the abuses of capitalism.

They want to be in the fashion, and take up any new fad or catchword which happens to find favour in academic and intellectual circles.

And they run away from real argument and discussion, especially when argument is backed by experience: at that point they leave the party machine to deal with the question.

Take the way the party policy statements are put over. They emerge from the profound thought and labours of the