More power to your elbows! | Socialist Action 1983

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I have read your recent centre page series on the history of the trade union movement.

I enclose a copy of a publication produced in the year of the General Strike. It is concerned with the production of the TUC paper the British Worker during the days of the strike.

I was only six years of age at the time and the only recollection of events I have is of a wireless enthusiast in the street where I lived who relayed BBC news programmes.

This bloke was the landlord of the pub and not many people owned radio receivers then.

Churchill and the Daily Mail were both evil influences against the workers and this is highlighted in this book which I found among the papers of a recently dead friend who had a netime of involvement in the left of politics and with the Committee of One Hundred.

Like myself, my friend was threatened with expulsion from the Exeter Constituency Labour Party and was A bus, immobilized by the General Strike, being towed away. driven out — when he opposed the official line on German re armament and I only last year when I opposed local officers on the Falklands war.