CND: The CP steward, the priest, and the political banner
From Tribune 27 June 1958 Peter fryer: “stopped from marching” Some most unfortunate incidents marred last Sunday’s demonstration organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Members of the Labour Party, including many who had come down specially from the provinces, were marching behind the Newsletter’s banner, which bore the slogan “Industrial action — black the H-bomb and the rocket bases” and were shouting the slogan “No work on H-bombs, no work on rocket bases.” A similar contingent had marched all the way to Aldermaston behind the same banner and shouting the same slogans. Some of...