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... the last Labour Government in 1931, when unemployment went up by 1,600,000 which meant that on an average every day the Socialists were in office over 2,000 workers lost their jobs, whereas under the National Government —with a Conservative majority —this ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 476 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Readers' Forum OUR DAILY BREAD To the Editor of the Mercury Sir—l was most interested to \ your last week's

... 21 years. Can any Socialist Government claim such a momentous gift to Democracy? (b) Stanley Baldwin sold many of his possessions and gave the proceeds, amounting to £173,000, a free and voluntary gift to the Nation. Has any Socialist individual ever given ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 822 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Whither Away ?

... For no grown man wants State Control If he can exercise the role Of curbing passion, vice and greed, Which blossom best on Socialist creed. Let's all be friends Tate and Lyle! Let butchers keep their ancient style! ; Let groundnut schemes be not retarded ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Readers' Forum VOTING BY POST To the Editor of the Mercury Sir, —In response to several enquiries, it is necessary

... of the Mercury Sir, —Some readers may have seen an account in the Birmingham Post of Monday last, of statements by the Socialist candidate for Cannock (Miss Jennie Lee). Among other hysterical statements she is reported to have charged pre-war Conservative ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING FOR CANDIDATE

... ation haa added to the nations burdens and destroyed confidence. Socialist Claim There was no foundation for the Socialist claim to have brought them prosperity and security. Socialist Ministers themselves had declared that but for American Aid there ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3088 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A STRAIGHT FIGHT BETWEEN TORIES AND SOCIALISTS

... A STRAIGHT FIGHT BETWEEN TORIES AND SOCIALISTS LICHFIELD ELECTION CAMPAIGN LIBERALS DECIDE NOT TO CONTEST THE ELECTION AS generally anticipated, the coming General Election in the Lichfield and Tamworth Division will be a straight fight between Mrs. S ...

Published: Friday 10 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2080 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

62,500 ELECTORS & 58 POLLING STATIONS

... between State Domination and Freedom. By their votes they must decide whether they went further along the road to the complete Socialist State, with more power in the hands of the politicians and the officials, and less individual freedom, or whether as a united ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3028 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CANDIDATES CONTRIBUTE A FINAL MESSAGE THROUGH THE MERCURY

... bitter experience, because we farmed through it, but to blame the Tories is just another Socialist lie. The Socialists and the Liberals were to blame. In 1929, the Socialist party went into office. They gave a pledge to make farming pay, but they steadfastly ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CONSERVATIVES OPTIMISTIC

... absolutely contrary to the principles of the trade union movement and the fact that the trade movement a whole was allied to the Socialist party forced them to accept it They believed that overtime should be taxed at the same rate as a man's normal tax on his ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 747 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

| ORGANISED OPPOSITION AT CHASE TERRACE To the Editor of the Mercury Sir, —I attended Mrs. Ward's meeting at Chase

... Tuesday night. Over and over again I was told, not by Mrs. Ward or any of the speakers, that the Human Gramophone is a Socialist invention. One of these appliances (the name I acquired from Mr. Bevap) must have been the very latest, for it was much louder ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2586 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNUSUAL LICHFIELD COUNTY COURT CASE

... distorted, misrepresented and concealed the real issues, but the truth cannot be hidden for very much longer. When .the Socialists can no longer conceal the facts nor control the situation, the people will realise that they nave been deceived, and will ...

Published: Friday 03 March 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2009 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Readers' Forum LICHFIELD CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION LOCAL ORGANISATIONS AND MR. G. KELLY To the Editor of the ..

... government is nil—is constituting a whispering gallery in a concealed smear campaign. This is not in accordance with true socialist principles and reveals a weakness in the local party's modus operandi. If this develops further is it not time that the public ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1950
Newspaper: Lichfield Mercury
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1062 | Page: 7 | Tags: none