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As noted in the last issue of the Bullctin this will take place on punday the 22nd of July, 2.30 at Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road. The meeting sponsored by Tribune will have the active participation of Young Guard supporters. 4 bus is going to be organiscd from Nottingham; already Young Socialists from Derby, ‘“Y"irksworth, Ilkeston and various Nottingham branches have signified their intention of coming. A large and successful meeting could be the focal point of a new campaign to beat the witch—hunt against Young Socialists, Tran 440l
ione#Bpour Party and the threat against Lord Russell
The Merioneth Constituency Labour Party, of which Lord Russell is a member, was very upset by the threat to ease their most famous member out of the Labour Party owing to the non-payment of his dues for 1962. The Chairman and Treasurer, neither of whom have paid their dues, said they would resign if he was expelled, the Chairman also said that he would never vote Labour again. Half the members of the C.L.P. are not paid up for the same reason as Lord Russell; subs. are normally collected near the end of the year. Thr Press and the Labour Party
The capitalist press is doing its best to back up the Gajtskell wing of tho leadership in its fightto purge the left. Apart from the more obvious ways OsGa, the campaign they ran over the liay Day disturbances, the 'quality' papers are intervening more subtly. Many examples come to mind tut one of the most direct was an article in the Guardian of the 27th June, that is the day of the N.3.C. which took the final decision on the question of the four sponsors of the Moscow Peace and Disarmament Conference. This article entitled "Labour's frontier on the Left" and written by John Cole, the Guardian's Labour correpondent amounted to an attempt to justify the whole system of proscriptions. Another interesting incident was the 'plug' given to Counterblast, the Young Socialist right-wing paper by the Daily Rlegraph on Monday the 25th, June. Under a heading which announced that Julia Gaitskell, Gaiter's eldest daughter, had written the lead article, it quoted from article and gave at the end the address and price of the journal, We wonder if they would give 'advortising' to a left journal? Two victories in Glasgow
We are informed that two attempts by the right wing to witch hunt the left in Glasgow have been defeated recently. “hen the three leading right wingers of the Glasgow Labour Party - Tom Simpson, secretarys Pat Trainer, chairman and Alex Cameron, treasurer - proposed that the “oodside C.L.P. be disbanded this was turned down by the executive of the Glasgow Party. (Alex Cameron is the Glasgow secretary of the Campaign for Democratic Socialism). Similarly an attempt to disband the Springburn Young Socialists was defeated at a General Management Committ«e of that C.L.P. by 70 votes to 5.