from Alan Rooney The month of September will provide the biggest opportunity for CND activity to pressurise the Labour Government into implementing many of it policies which CND supports and abandoning those it condems. In fact, CND activity will be greater during September than for many years and will require all the help CND supporters can give. The fdlowing are the most important activities planned: September 5,6, 7 & 8 : South East Region CND and Brighton CND will be
co-operating with the Focus team to produce a
Focus for TUC. September 17 CND mass meeting ~ An Independent Policy for Britain,
Speakers: Norman Atkinson, M.P., Stuart Hall,
Professors Melman and Wedderburn,
This meeting will be held at the Central Hall,
Westminster, and is intended as pre-Labour Party
Conference rally. September 18 CND discussion conference - "Should we support the
Vietcong?" A discussion on non-alignment and the
attitude of the peace movement to war, Malcolm
Caldwell and Peter Cadogan have been invited to
open the discussion, As the hall only holds 100
people, invitations are being issued through Regions
and Specialist Sections. September 26 Eve of Conference CND march at Blackpool. This will
assemble at 2.30 Gynn Square for a rally on the
sands at 3.30. Among the speakers are Olive Gibbs,
Fenner Brockway, Stan Orme, M.P., and Hugh Scanlon,
The size of this demonstration will have an import-
ant effect on the delegates. Many of the Regions
have already ordered coaches. September 27 to October 1 CND Focus at Blackpool, CND will distribute a daily
Focus to delegates throughout the week, The Focus
team will work in co-operation with the North West
Region. Firemen Turn on the Heat (continued)
ings, and this is the pattern which a Labour controlled authority wants to_ extend throughout the county! Any pretence at parity with the police force is a thing of the past, and provincial rates are now £7 per week below those of the police, who . have a current pay claim for a further £5. And, as a background to the whole unsatisfactory state of affairs, we have the disturbing fact that men are leaving the service at an alarming rate. 1,800 firmen left last year - a shocking figure when one considers that the total national strength is only 24,000. Is it any wonder we are protesting?