Igwu to Democratise Jersey

The scan: The Week v4 no20.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.

from a special correspondent The Transport and General Workers! Union in Jersey, Channel Islands, has 5,000 members. Its District Committee has now formed a political committee which held its first meeting on November 19th, Afterwards, the chairman of the District Committee, Mr R. Hansford, a docker, issued the following statement: "We have money in our political fund and we shall use it to finance a candidate at the next election and pay his wages to sit in the Chamber, We want to see paid MPs elected on a declared political programme, instead of the present system of electing unattached representatives on an honorary basis, The workers never vote at elections because all the candidates belong to the same old gang of rich businessmen and wealthy retired company directors, We accuse the Government of overspending and taxing the workers =~ but not the rich. Chancellor of the Exchequer Cyril Le Marquand has said that income tax will never go higher than 4s in the pound whilehe is in office, We say there should be supertax on the very rich. There are over 20 millionaires on this island,"