themselves with. Clearly, engaged in trade union activity is on the increase and the high levels of deliberately used to try to weaken and ultimately destroy trade union shopfloor organisation.
The campaign in cerLam reals ot the Dress.
Management, supported by some engineering and other employers' organisations, against the so-called Left-Wing clearly not only concerned with whether some Deon e filled in their application designed to frighten off workers from being shor stewards and trade union coresculalives their place of work The question that has to be asked is where will it end?
Over the years we have seen the Communist Derek Robinson dismissed from his job. We have also SCCT other shoo Sicwaru. (not members of the Com-.
Partv. or oi anv other left wing group) but because ther were active trade unionists, dismissed trom employment.
The dangerous atmosphere is being created in A very dangerous situation is developing in Britain which I believe all genuine democrats must concern the "blacklisting' of workers for their political opinions and who are unemployment being Britain, in all honesty not LeSA in the 19505, as advanced as in the OTHe need for witch hunt against so-carec 'reds' similar to that which took place in the USA after the second war, develoned and supported by Richard Nixon Senator McCarthy where scapegoats were required, and which I believe was the Leason for the judicial murder of the Rosenbergs.
Danger Certainly we in Britain have not got to that stage yet, but the danger signs are there and this is the time for all true democrats say enough Is enough before it is too late and the atmosphere develops into one of hysteria.
The latest episode is of Colise Turiner atby some by such SLONICS 1,000 moles Callaghan were leaders.
They Kave always been anti-Labour their policies and they will continue to be so.
Damage La socialist all have read certain newspapers Party was being infiltrated, that the CLPs were Communist dominated, Trotskyist fluenced, and that a takeUVCI was about to take place.
Sometimes few Labour and trade union leaders have given credence the statements, usually ones who later have left ranks after having used the unelr personal 1 warn Partv members that the statements being made today moles etc. designed damage the Party and stop us from winning power at the next election. They are designed frighten the people by painting a picture that bears no relation to the real situation.
inere differences within the Labour Luce dre unose on meie and those referred the 'legitimate' lett, when in the past it was argued-they should have been expelled.
It is worth recalling that when the Parliamentary revolution took place there was an upsurge of adhering Parliament and the revolution, who sold their phlets in stalls in Westminster Hall.
It is a long tradition in Britain that groups within the wider movement argus their case. Sometimes their arguments win the maiori. ty support, usually they do 11UL The real point is that it is our tradition to have varying groups and jour nals and it is a traditio that IS at the heart of British democracy.
If that is destroyed or undermined then we are increasingly toward: the authoritarianism which George Orwell wrote about in his book '1984'. Orwell believed in genuine workers' democracy and it is a view I also hold, and anything that tries undermine be strongly resisted. Eric Heffer: time to fight McCarthyism