AIRCRAFT STEEL CONVENER THANKS

Other business of the conference includes the adoption of The Newsletter has received the following letter the League’s constitution, a draft of which will be presented from the convener of the shop stewards’ committee at Aircraft Steel Structures, Park Royal, London: the League’s international relations, to be opened by William Dear Brother, Hunter; and the election of a national committee. I am instructed by the above committee to write and The conference will be followed by a series of public thank you for the support that was consistently given to meetings in major centres, beginning with one in Leeds on us in the columns of your journal during our recent May 24. strike. (Marxists in conference: page 140) Your reports were fair and objective and therefore helped us towards the victory we achieved in compelling the management to conform to our agreements HOBART HOUSE HITS THE NAIL—BANG ON concluded with the previous management. THE THUMB Sending you our best wishes, MINERS have been using hammers and shovels for Yours fraternally, several years. They’re getting quite used to them now. D. EDWARDS (Convener) In fact they think these tools have probably come to stay.

But the National Coal Board want to make quite sure that pronouncement from Transport House that “we do not intend these new-fangled things are being used properly. So they to nationalize the large firms” ? have sent a pamphlet from their Hobart House headquarters ‘The Left-wingers are now written off as difficult lads who to pit instructors. One part says that this is the way to use played truant and neglected their homework on the new a hammer: socialist glossary of political terms.’ 1. Examine the hammer. 2. Grasp the shaft.

3. Approach the object. 4. Strike the object.

‘SOCIALISM’ AND ‘NATIONALIZATION’

With a shovel, it seems that you examine the shovel, For leaders: dirty words approach the pile of stone or coal to be removed, grasp the ‘The new glossary of political terms.’ According to that shovel, make a forward stroke, raise the load, then—wait for glossary ‘socialism’ and ‘nationalization’ have become dirty it!—swing shovel in the direction in which load is to be thrown. words in the Labour Party. There are 46 pages in this pamphlet. The only thing that’s Yet as a political trend the municipal election results are missing is a section for miners’ grandmothers on how to get only a flea-bite compared with the continued retreat of the the most out of an egg. leaders in the industrial field. ‘Not so silly as it sounds,’ says a Coal Board spokesman.

Sixty thousand more coal-miners are in danger of losing But the miners think it’s the NCB’s heads that want examining, (Continued overleaf) not the colliers’ hammers.

180 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4 Telephone Macaulay 7029 SATURDAY, May 16, 1959 THE NEWSLETTER welcomes delegates and visitors — ference this week-end will establish the League on a granite foundation and plan a massive extension of its work and activity.

Above all the conference will confirm that feature of the Socialist Labour League’s programme and policy which stands in the sharpest contradistinction to the