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May 28, 1940.
SCHEME
TO
HAMPER WAR EFFORT
Agents Organising Factory Strikes
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
I HAVE SEEN A SECRET PLAN OF THE
Blames It On Love
"I think the main cause of all wars is the love of man for woman's body," Reginald H. J. road, Kensington, W., told Lon- don Conscientious Objectors
Tribunal recenly.
BRITISH COMMUNIST PARTY FOR THE COM-Render, clerk, of Finstock- PLÉTE REORGANISATION OF ITS ELABORATE PROPAGANDA SYSTEM.
"You may think I'm mad, but
The scheme covers factory and social activities. It I am no different from other is aimed against Britain.
..
This month the Party has been divided into two sections. Factory workers will be in one section, social! workers in another.
men.
Sir James Baillie: Do you suggest that the cause of the Civil War in America had any- thing to do with that? Reader: Yes, I do.
He was refused exemption.
The factory Communists will be brought under the unified control of the branch officials in their works area.
This will centralise the activi-workers in ambulance rescue and BOUND AND tles of Communist agitation in demolition work should be dismissed. industrial works. It will facili-and that the clean-out will spread ali
"I hope London will lead the way GAGGED IN FLAT tate the organisation of strikes over the country," Mr. Dean told the and the exploitation of "griev- Sunday Dispatch
The chief warden of Hendon mid:
ances."
Agent In Air Factory · An active Communist agent has been placed in an important aircraft factory on the Great West-road, but, thanks to a warning, the managing director-has-boon- able to deal with. this menace.
here."
"Enemy allens are no longer enrolled Hampstead began the war with 13 aliens. Two have since resigned, Refugees Turn Homes Into
~~"Dasshouses”........
NO TRACE OF DEAD WIDOW'S RELATIVES
money in a black bag which she al-
COTLAND YARD.officers have so for been unable to trace the rew the latives of Mrs. Caroline Jones, 60-year-old German-Jewish widow; Refugees who sleep four in a room who was found dead,
gogged and Factories in West London area have combined to form "security squads" su that they can live in London's best bound in her flat at Brondesbury
аге spolling recently. to counteract communist agents' work, residential districts
A social club, with Communist sym-Hompstead's good name, says Miss The woman had created an impres- pathics, has been started near Cadby London
Lambert, Joyce
secretary of the ston locally that she had wealth · Emergency Apartment Hall to contact thousands of Lyons
stowed away in her flat, and had int!-|
had employees. Political speakers have Keepers' Society.
mated to neighbours that she already addressed meetings of this "When war come we had to do club. Their names are D. N. Pritt, something to protect ourselves," she added, "and 1,400 of us formed the K.C., Acland, and Ivor. Montagu.
Experimental engineering classes Society. are to be held for Communists in "At our last meeting an AR.P. the Brentford and Chiswick area. warin reported that one house be Specially chosen skilled engineers called at was like a dosahouse."
"Conditions are so appalling that we will instruct prospective party agents.
have referred the matter to the mortem report was to be in the hands Propaganda Plans
Medical Officer of Health,"
lot the Kilburn coroner later that day. mado Arrangements have been through Communist shop stewards for these agents to obtain work in! local factories as soon as possible.
They will be fully equipped with propagatida and will be well trained in the sort of agitation to be fostered. Every grievance among employees will be used to further the Communist cause.
Social groups will continue as be- tore, except that members-who-are factory workers will take their orders! from the factory 'agent and not from the agent in the locality in which they Jive
An effort is to be made to get other societies with working-class sympa- ihles to be officially affiliated to the Communist Party.
Tenants' associations and the Na- tional Unemployed Workers' Move- ment, which have been greatly ex- ploited by the Communist Party, are be annexed to the main organisa- tien
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One case in point is the Clayponds Housing Estate, north of the Great West Rond Tenants have already been notified of an increase in rent. and Chiswick Communist Branch and members of the Brentwood organised a house-to-house convess to form a Tenants' Association.
"When The Time Comes"
The British Communist Party is using every means in its power to ex-
ways carried with her.
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Police do not now think that the person responsible for the killing in- tended to rob, because they are
forcible able to find any trace of a entry to the premises.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury's
Canada Will Fill Gaps
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Supply
OTTAWA.
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EXPERTS in Ottawa have been busy sinco Hitler's swift descent on Scandinavia planning the organization of Canada's resources to replace Britain's losses of imports of bacon, butter, eggs, newsprint, timber and other vital necessities.
.
The subjugation of Denmark (there sto more Icelanders -in-Canada-than-in-icoland) and the attack an Norway dooply moved the Canadian people, stiffaning their determination to do the utmost to defeat the Nazis.
It goes without saying there is no desire here to increase prices to Britain, and Canada is well able to supply Britain with most of the essential commoditios formorly drawn from Donmark.
ROYAL JEWELS MAY
BE SOLD TO PAY £1,600,000 DUTIES
A DIAMOND fleur de lys which once adorned the
Tend its hold on the British working Crown of Queen Alexandra, and a ruby and diamond
classes.
It does not seek mass support necklace from the Crown Jewels of the ill-fated French openly, but wants the sympathies of
workers ready for "when the time Xoyal house-both heirlooms left by millionaire Sir
comes to strike."
The Sunday Dispatch believes that George Alexander Cooper-may be sold to pay the death these efforts are a menace, to the true dutics on his estate. interest of the British workman as much as to the nation as a whole, and urges the Government.to take imme- diate action.
They should be stopped at once.
300 Fight To Help Us Lasa The War
Sir George, the first baronet, formerly an Elgin solicitor, died in March.
He left more than £3,000,000, a LATE NEWS
£300,000 nanor
home and estate
near Winchester, and heirlooms of dlmonds, rubies and pearls (among Nazi-like methods of setting up them the crown pieces), besides valu- "calls" for disseminating propaganda able tapestries, French furniture, and are being used by the Activist Group
Rac by Reynolds, Lawrence, pletures of the Peace Pledge Union.
The chairman of the Group, Mr. bum, Romney and Heppner.
Half Income In Taxes James Norbury, who admits that he is
Sir George's will states: "During the man warned by Judge R. C. Estenhigh, at Manchester Conselen- the last few years, more than half of tious Objectors Tribunal, about my income has been expended in super tax." speaking to an applicant during a paying case, told the Sunday Dispatch that Estate duty of £1,034,000 has been the Group believes resistance to war pald
Income and
Because of the fortune which he
effort needs "gingering refusal to co-know must be paid to the State when
Causes.
"Membership Implies operate in carrying, a gas mask, he died Sir George declared he was taking part in organized evacuation, unable to leave any legocios to helping in any kind of first aid units charity, although during his life he varlous even refusal to sign the State regia-gave considerable sums to ter for conscientious objectors."
Membership, according to Mr. Nor-Te Instructed his trustees to sell bury, is at present about 300. his heirlooms to raise a sum for” thoTM Mr. Norbury, who is 35 and un-payment of death duties, "as I con- married, carries on the Activist Group alder that It would not be just to work from his home in Manchester. burden the residue of my catate with
Mr. A. C. Staniland, an officer of the auch duties." Peace Pledge Union, said:
"Chicago" Smith's Millions The activists are a group of union Sir George married a cousin of the members. There is no chance of our fomous "Chicago" Smith, a Scot, who outlawing them.”
went to the USA. to seek his for- tune, bought acres of the land which
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became the owner of rallways, Alderman F. W. Dean, of Maryle-returned to ale in London a miser, bone Borough Council, is starting a who spent 12s. 6d. a day on his keep national drive to purge all British and possessed over £9,000,000, ARP. services of enemy allens,"
Half went to Sir George Cooper At the next LCC. meeting on April and his wife, and half to another of Walt 30 he will ask Mr. Herbert Morrison, Smith--"Silent" Smith. chaisman, to follow the example of Streeti javmajor Marylebone, who have sacked 17 Bir George's Germans and Austrians,
esfute le divided among his wife, two sons and
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