“the Week" at Scarborough

Supporters of The Week were involved in a wide range of activities at Scarborough during the Labour Party conference, As readers will know a special edition of The Week was produced for Scarborough and nearly 400 copies were sold, On the Saturday prior to the start of the conference several supporters of our journal took part in the compositing procedures - others distributed to the inte roductory issue of Briefing. Sunday was a fantastically busy day: all the dozen or so meetings and demonstratioms had to be covered with Briefing and the leaflet advertising the teach-in which took place that evening, The 35 supporters of The Week were kept extremely busy all the more so because they had various responsibilities in connection with the teach-in, and when that was over Monday's Briefing had to be written, typed, stencilled, duplicated, collated and stapled, Little wonder that it was 4.30 a.m, Monday morning before they were finished! All through the week, meetings had to be covered, Briefing had to be produced and then distributed next morning starting at 8.45. Sleep was a rare commodity. We feel that the effort was well worthwhile and that it helped to increase opposition to the Government's right wing policies. On issue - Vietnam - it is quite likely that it was the intervention of Briefing which swayed the vote. The delegates appreciated our efforts: quite apart from all the encouraging words and thanks, they donated getting on for £30 to the Briefing financial appeal. We have appended a selection of items which appeared in Briefing, we feel that they are of interest in and of themselves and that in addition they give a "feel" of the conference,