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A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Should LABOUR Agree To A Popular FRONT

(Labour MP. for Ebbw Vale; became a miner when he left school at the age of 13}

Yes

Says Aneurin Bevan

FAVOUR the affiliation of the Communist Party to the Labour Party. The Editor has asked me to say why in six hundred words. I propose, therefore, to summarise arguments against affilation and to give my reply tersely.

It is said that the Communist

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an indictment of intention and can be proved or disproved only in practice.

is Anyway, loyalty

nover It comes from ready-made. common struggle and sacrifice. The bonds of loyalty can be forged only in co-operation. Events in Spain underline this lesson.

It is a regrettable circumstance that there are in the Colony from three to four hundred Bri-Party will not be loyal. This is (DB-1762) Lain men eligible for service.in the Volunteer Defence Corps who have not seen fit to enrol in this (DB2146) unit, which has been allotted a specific and important part in the (DB-2223) defence of Hongkong. Major General Bartholomew, in report: (DB-2367/8)ing to this effect to the War Office, states that many of these men have had no military train- (DB2528/9)

ing whatever, and adds that they would probably constitute the only source of reinforcement in the greatest of all emergencies. One half of the number are in Government service, and, despite the recent appeal made by His Excellency the Governor, of these only twenty-four out of a hundred and fifty have enrolled in the Carps and seven in the Naval The disin- Volunteer. Force. dination on the part of eligible Britons to shoulder-responsibili-

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ARE INFORMED THEN WE that the Communists want to get into the Labour Party only My in order to capture it. readers can work that out for themselves.

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The Communist Party de- clares its readiness to accept the constitution

of

the Labour

Party, with all that is implied thereby. It seems clear from

recent events that the Com- munist International is pre- pared to accord greater flexi- bility to its national bodies.

In any case experience alone can provide the answer one way or the other. The workers arej becoming impatient of these metaphysical objections unity.

to

were substantial increases in the numbers of Portuguese, Eura-munist International, and 16, sians, Indians and Chinese link- therefore, not in a position to be

loyal to the Labour Party. ing up with the Corps last year, Following the request of the Secretary of State that as many overseas Government British em- ployees as possible should join the defence units of the Colonies in which they serve, the continued indifference of civil servants to what should be an understood obligation cannot but be deplor- ed. Indifference, and not studied refusal to enrol, is, we feel sure, the attitude of most non-members of eligible age, whether in the Government service or in other occupations. It may, however, to a sense of bring these men their duty if we point out that the present personnel of the who, on Corps contains muny the score of age, could well ex- cuse themselves from service, but who are animated by a spirit which is tucking in many young- er men. Nover before in the history of the Colony has well'or- the Corps been ganised, and never before has it presented such a variety in forms of service than at the present time. The work

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It is said that amilation would weaken the electoral ap- peal of the Labour Party. The present line of the Labour Party is not so successful in this respect that its authors are entitled to be complacent.

Once a party modifles "Its position so as to reassure the people it is on the retreat. It is forced to retire from one weak position to a weaker one, until it dics of the inanition produced by its own fears.

If it does not belave as though it believes in itself it cannot expect the country to

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tatorship except as a reply to subversive attempts on the part of the defeated capitalist to re- verse the expressed wiil of the people.

If democracy is to survive it must be ready to take whatever measures are necessary to de- fend itself. The Spanish Liberal Government, even now, is pay- ing the price of not realising the profoundly antidemocratic temper of the ruling class,

The Anal objection is that to aflate the Communist Party would excite the rise of Fascist forces in reply.

'This view is alarming in its abysmal defeatism. It says in effect that if we lie down our enemies will not need to knock us down.

All recent political history proves the opposite. Where the workers are united, strong and self-reliant Fascism fails to reach maturity.

I support the affilation of the Communist Party because I be- lieve it would lead to the spiritual reawakening of the British Working-class Move- ment, and would be the begin- ning of a march which would end in the triumph of the Workers' Cause.

F

No

Says

within

ranks the

01 Labour there is some con- tention and confusion as to what our relation with the Communists should be, опе must not wonder at it.

For the time being our Com- munists have become rather mild unscrupulous editions of the 10th century Fabians.

They are all for permeation rather than open public propa- ganda.

They obscure their own alms. They will even deny or hide the principles to which the Commu- nist International (the CI) has committed them.

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* ★ THEIR ATTITUDE TO THE Labour leaders has become more discriminating; for the Communists there now appear to be three categories of Labour leaders:-

1. Those who have the courage to criticise the C.P. For them. the whole abuse is more or less continued; their integrity is questioned.

2. The sitters-on-the-fence, who do not love the Com- munists but who fear to attack them. or who do favour the

A Crop Of

Howlers

THE schools have closed, and the lorn guesses at an answer, long shots termly crop of howlers is being] that don't quite come off. Two from handed round. It seems appropriate chemistry:-

enteer.

to recount a few of the best we have "Ta and evidence of carbon in the come across in the course of our body-rub the hands together und a black deposit appears," "How to While it is perhaps sacrilege to make soft water hard-freezeit." attempt to classify such gems of wit;

At grammar Tommy was to give as true howlers, they may be divided the degrees of the word "bad." His The first is a answer is very pithy-"Bad-very ill the symbol into definite groups, big class of those cases where baddead." "Explain writing or spelling gives the effect. LXXX" was the question, and the Here are some:-

romantle youth gave as his reply, and kisses." The cookery "The Pied Piper promised to rid "Love the town of rales." The aim of a class was asked how to keep milk chemistry experiment was set out us from turning sour in warm weather. "To measure the capacity of a ree-All were puzzled except wee, Jeanie. bloke." Again, we are Up shot her hand-"Keep it in the tangtalar told. "Some of our great poets are cow, miss."

Kenis, Browning,

and Sherry."

The Onal class is the really brilliant "The Duke of Wellington had a big selection, the work of those who have funeral. It took eight men to carry the right idea but express themselvca the beer" (bier).

quaintly. A perfect example is the

the

Another, and a large class, may be answer of the girl who had to explain the malupropisms where one word is the meaning of the proverb, "A bird confused with another word like it in the hand is worth two in There are

some gems here:The bush," and who said, "One thing of man who keeps order at a featball something you have got in worth, two gol." WE ARE TOLD THAT THE moich is called a refugee." A proud things of nothing you haven't Communist Party does not support son wrilcai-"In the wor my father)To be umbidextrous, we are told, is democracy whilst the Labour Party was in charge of a spitoon." "Give to be "able to use hands as if they docs.

the masculine of belle-stomach." Have not recent experiences "What is the Soviet? What some Here is a boy with political Jean- shown that the danger to demo-people call their table: napkins." cracy comes, not from the Left, Oliver Cromwell was in charge of ings. Asked to delne a rhetorical but from the Right; not from an an ironclad."

question and give an example, be Egressive working class, but from

writes: "A rhetorical question is ono

of the Corps is exceedingly in-bellove in it. teresting, beneficial to all who take part in it, and, above all else, fits those who join to play their rightful part in times of emergency. There can surely be no Briton worthy of the name who would caro to feel that,' did an emergency arise, he would be unable, through, lack of training, to do his bit, and would have to shelter behind those who have willingly accepted their obliga Llops. We therefore appeal to all who, no matter the reason, have not yet fitted themselves for emergency service, to join the Corps without delay. By sa do- ing they will remove a reproach under which the Colony should not labour, and will also have the additional consciousness that they are not shirking their duty,

were feet."

(Labour MP. for South Hackney and Leader of the London County Council),

Herbert

Morrison

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Communists, but fear openly to support them. For them a mix- ture of toleration and contempt. And I agree.

3. Their friends and instru- ments. For them praise. They have "courage they are "brave working-class fighters." They are called "comrade."..

But no more are all the Labour leaders grouped together as Fakira and Social Fascists!. For the time beling those epithets are stored away in the cupboard. Why?

Communists claim a relation- ship to the Labour Party similar to that of the old 1.L.P. which for many years, did such useful work as an affiliated body.

But there is little similarity be tween the old I.L.P. and the British section of the Communist International.

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COMPARE:-

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old L. Socialem by per- suasion

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CF.C.D. Violent

and a 1on and lamentary deino-

cracy,

Socialist edites-

tion.

Party autonomy.

resolu- Кочего- ment by dictator- slijp.

Little or no 50-

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subject to Labour. 0.1. and subject to Party constitution. international'

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struction. substantial Dictatorship to degree of branch. locals and indivi- azid individual-dual--in e in VOIE.....

within from headquartersa.

autonomy

the LLP.

1.L.P. member. O.P. membership ship generally con- has one loynity-

to C.P. and C.I.

sistent with loyalty

to Labour Party. Self-financed.

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Largely fusaced from abroMI.

Violent changes In policy s

by the utterly un-

reasonably consistent, under stood policy; con ordered Bequently reliable. O.;

reliable.

When the I.L.P. wanted to do somewhat milder things than the C.P. it left the Labour Party.

say, Somebody may

What about the Bocialist League?

Well, what about it?. There is a widely-held view that it has neither justified ita existence nor its affiliation to the Party.

I ask you to recall those earlier days when individual Communists were permitted to be party officers, delegates and members. They were not very pleasant days for our best local Labour Party workers-and I am more interested in them than the clover-clever people.

They were days of C.P. effort to "capture

party officerships and control; of duplicated written in- structions to the "fractions" work- ing from within; of reduced in- dividual membership owing to the domestic struggle between two op- posite policies; of loss of effort and propaganda drive for the same

reason.

I AND MY COLLEAGES OF THE London Labour Party spent only half our time fighting the Tories because the other half was taken up in protecting the Party against C.P. conspiracies,

I don't want that kind of life' again. Nor do the best of our local

Labour Party workers. We want to get on with our job of fighting for Socialism and Peace in our own Labour Party way.

Why can't the Communists get on with their different job in their way? Or, if their policy is claimed to be the same as ours, why don't they liquidato themselves and working class dissension?

a capitalist class which is noir is, composed of oxygen and which is asked and there is no answer longer able to reconcile its position sapatogen," "An epitaph is a short, to itme.g., What has the Government cen

'cease to be the cause of so much with the maintenance of political sarcastic remark." Asked for a sen-been doing all these years?" And and social decenes....

No Communist conceives of dic-tence using the word summit, a bright we are told. "It the Prime Minister lad wrote:-"When the clock stops dies, who takes charge?-Thy under- there is summit wrong with it." taker" And lastly, a translation of "Wellligten, after a long champagne, "De mortuis nil nist bonum" was ren- defeated Napoleon."

dered. "In the dead there is noth- The third class may be put down ing except bones." un sheer unmitigated ignorance, for-:

One Thought......... SONG for our banner? The watchword recall,

"United wo stand, divided we fall!" G. P. MORRIS.

G.V.G.

And Another "MEN work together" I told

him from the heart, "Whether they work together

or apart."

-ROBERT FROST