FRED LEE DENTES ARMS' EMBARGO WILL CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT from a Hull reader
Fred Lee, spokesman for the Labour Party on aircraft affairs, addressed a public meeting recently on the question of Hawker Siddetey's production of the Blackburn Buccanneer for sale to South Africa, in the town of Brough (near Hull) where the aircraft factory is situated. He gave a timely re-assurance that the cancelling of the order for these aircraft by the next Labour Government would not be allowed to cause redundancies at the works, thus killing an insidious campaign which the local Tory Mail has been running for months in an attempt to scare Brough workers into opposing Labour's policy. There were. encouraging signs at the meeting, and from a statement made by a DATA representative at Hull Trades Council later, thet progressive elements amongst the workers at Brough feel very strongly the shameful nature of the traffic in which the company is engaged. With this factory in its midst, and with the impressive degree of support for Anti-Apartheid displayed last week, the Hull Labour movement is particularly well-placed to press forward with the demand for a Labour policy of sanctions against South Africa.