A small group of CND members picketed the openings perfomance of the "Finest Hours" at the Bristol Odeon on Monday 8th Jyne, they carried a banner saying “The finest hours resulted in Hiroshima and agasaki,"' and handed out the controversial ILP army leaflet. Local military "brass" were out in force and there was a small parade of army cadets. The Lord Mayor who was said to have been invited was not seen.
A group of about two dozen people gathered on College Green outside the the Council House 7.00 p.m. on Friday to start a 5 hour vigil in protest at the sentences announced in the treason trial; there was also a short meeting in the centre of Bath. Perhaps as significant was the fact that one Conservative Parliamentary candidate, Cllr. Bob Wall, also spoke out against the result of trial. "To deny a man elementary political rights in the second half of the 20th century was to ensure that sooner or later those men would take up arms t to acquire such rights," he said,
The next meeting of the Bristol Left Club will discuss "Incomes Policy under a Labour Government, The speaker will be Mr. J.L. Thomas, of Brist 1 University. The mmeeting will be held at the Full Moon Hotel, Stokes Croft, on June 23rd, commencing at 7.45 peme