all mention of the private armies after treating them essentially as a joke. Nor has the attitude of the Labour Party and the TUC been very different.
But in the meantime recruitment Northern Europ new okin gham, Maide barrister) and Ascot esponse so far Colonel Geffers course, ictly non-political" modesty men and women of goodwill, whose sole aim is the well-being of their fellow countrymen and the prevention and law and order."
A similar non-political anti-work ing class organisation was founded in July 1925, called the Orgnisation for the Maintenance of Supplies (OMS). Its President and Council too were officially retired from REms of the State. like - Lond Hardinge of Penshunt, 1 Viceroy Poor i ruling clasa: they are unofficial, yet operate with the knowledge and sym pathy if not actual collusion of the The OMS too was ridiculed and dismissed by leaders, Strike began in 1926, the OMS and its register of some 100,000 volunteers were placed at the disposal of the Governn CON of its strike-breaking forces. the toys and you stay at home with the alves, many working class Yet just before the General nent, which used them as the expelled. political basis.
CAMPAIGNS 'CLEAN UP LABOUR' The opposition to the Dunnert/ Carroll machine is emerging at a number of different levels. On the one hand, Dieter Peels. is now diseussing the possibility of forming a new 'Clean Up Labour' party. He stood as a Clean Up Local Labour candidate in the general election, polling about 750 votes However, the effect of his cand¡dature was actually lo distance himself from those activists who wanted to remain in the Labour Party und could not support him without being expelled. As it was the Dunnett, Carroll machine tried to use Poetz's campaten to move against the left, About 20 people were summoned for disciplinary hearings on charges of helping him, though only two have so far been Forming a new party at this stage will have the same kind of distancing effect, especially if its main thrust is to win at the eleetions on the hasis of attacking the (undispured) evils of the local Lubour Party leadersbip. What is more important at this stage is, in tact, to Puke CommIon caNse between people inride and ouiside the Lab. our Party on those dej portical issues corenty confrontag the workers movemenr nationally and locally. in this way an apposition can be weided together on a firm Moves in this direction have already had some success in embarrassing the machine, particularly on the question of the Council's housing policies. The campaign here was sparked off by the Council's decision to allow the development STORY BY BERT ROTHSCHILD
USED FOR TERRORISM IS VIOLENCE The "Prevention of Terrorism Act has been in force now for nearly three weeks. In this period, countless homes have been seurched, Irishmen have been deported, and a number of IMG members have
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