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Newsletter, I want to see it maintained and enlarged, when this is possible.

I think the working class needs a newspaper such as this, which links the political and industrial struggles, is not afraid of truth or criticism, and is not controlled by either bosses or bureaucrats.

I am therefore sending you the enclosed £1 to help forward your appeal for £1,000.

I would like to suggest that you appeal in your columns for 200 readers who would be prepared to raise the sum of £5 each between now and May ‘Day.

Jim Roche PBPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEPPPPPPEPPPPPe extent of sending cuttings from the capitalist Press to their union’s executive council in order to ‘discipline’ delegates to the Newsletter Conference.

Small wonder that the Communist Party lost two of their seats on the executive council in the annual Trades Council elections, which took place the same day that their own witch-hunting attack on a Trades Council member’s right to write in the Trades Council’s journal was so decisively repulsed.

So few hands were put up in favour of suppressing the article that one can only suppose that they could not win their own rank and file for an ‘anti-Trotskyist’ crusade—let alone the Trades Council members.

Their actions have now ensured a much wider audience when the article is printed in the next issue of the Birmingham Journal, and an audience that will undoubtedly study the report very carefully.

Readers will be interested to know that at this Trades Council annual meeting, attended by 123 delegates, eighteen copies of the current issue of The Newsletter, nine Newsletter Conference reports and thirteen copies of Labour Review were sold.

Our grateful thanks to Messrs. Atkins, Bulgin, Baggeley, Ingram and Varnom and Miss Large, who voted for the suppression of the written word. As would-be censors generally do, they helped the sales of the written word considerably.

Birmingham 9. Harry Finch Published by The Newsletter, 180 Clapham High St, London, SW4.