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RED THREAT TO TRADE UNIONS

The annual confere National Union of

men.

Plymouth, rejected by 50 votes 20 a resolution in favour of a Unit ed Front of all working class or

nizations

party

was It was to unionism.

At the moment the Communists had dropped their campaign against Donlon (Manchester), the manufacture of artus, for they moving the resolution, said they were busily engaged, or son must face the biggest danger that them were, had ever threatened them the dang- er of war which was imminent.

munition factories.

of

The United Front admitted that they stood for armed insurrection There was a tendency for the and war against the State, and if trade unions and the Socialist party Sir Stafford Cripps did not believe to be lured into an alliance with that, then he must repudiate the the National Government to fight whole basis of the United Front. for democracy in Spain. He warn-

ed the conference that such an al- liance would cost the British Socia

list movement too high a price MR. SHAW TAKES

Mr. A. Ridyard (Warrington) said much had been made out of the fact that the National Govern- "ment had achieved a great deal] through the fusion of different par- ties. That was an argument why the British Socialist movement

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"CURTAIN CALL

FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCE

Mr. George Bernard Shaw broke

should build up a popular front to a personal rule by taking "a cur- meet the attacks of Fascism and tain call." He also made a first unrehearsed appearance on the the danger of war.

Itelevision screen.

Mr. Shaw was visiting the BBC Mr. Hailes (Sunderland), oppos

television station at Alexandra ing, said, the Socialist party constitutional, and there wes no Palace, where the first Shaw play thing to prevent others joining if to be televised, "How He Lied to they were prepared to accept the Her Husband," was being trans- mitted After seeing the play on a receiving set, be walked into the studio with the Television Direc- tor, Mr. Gerald Cock

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party's constitution.

The Russian Road

Mr. W. T. Proctor (Pontypool) While vision was still being broad- said they did not want people in cast to the whole London area, Mr. the movement to disrupt the unity Shaw peered round a property door of the party.

back stage and then advanced to- wards the camera. His main pur- The great fundamental difference pose, it seemed, was to take the between the Communist party and wind out of the sails of potential the Socialist movement was that the critics by denouncing his own play. "You might not suppose it from former believed that the workers

said: Mr. of this country must travel the same my veteran appearance,” bloody road that the Russians had Shaw, "but the truth is that I am had to travel

Mr. J. Marchbank, the general secretary, said that they were not told what working-class parties were meant in the resolution.

UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION RUMOURS DENIED

It has versity

ous rumo effect tha cided to

the Mat posit money that the versity

the author of that ridiculous little play you have just heard

INTEREST IN EQUIPMENT - "This is a very special occasion because, as a writer of plays, never come before the curtain and accept a call. But, you see, on this occasion you have not called me You are not like the unfortunate people in the theatre who, no mat- ter how much they may be bored, cannot get up and go away."

"You who are still listening show that you are interested-by-that- fact I myself very rearly went to sleep during the play" Afterwards Mr. Shaw

ly that the particular cast by the B.B.C

Fed.

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