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... Luxuries, you say? Then, 34 millions would build us twenty-two thousand of the houses we need so badly, Or you could do as the Socialist Government did. Nationalise coal and civil aviation. Lose the whole 34 millions in one year, while people waited for houses ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TURNOVER OF VOTES

... with any other points the unions would want to raise. “There may be some hqtheads or near-Communists on the fringe of the Socialist Party who might want to make trouble for the Conservatives through the trade unions. If they tried strike action to paralyse ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 530 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL MEMBER’S CRITICISM

... department submitted no reliable estimates, and simply gave an order for work to be done, and there was no check on it. Non- Socialist members of the Council who were opposed to nationalisation should be opposed to any further expansion of the County Works ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. BRYAN ATTACKS SOCIALISM “Failed in practice”

... world economic conditions, that a Socialist England would get on better with a Socialist Russiaall these are now known to be without foundation. But what is more serious still is that anyone could see that the Socialist leaders themselves do not believe ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LABOUR HAS MISMANAGED FOREIGN AFFAIRS Liberals would introduce compulsory co-partnership PAYMENT NOT CUSTOMARY ..

... laid down by Lord Beveridge would safeguard full employment. It was a policy which could be put into effect in either a Socialist or a Capitalist society, but whether the Conservatives or the Labour party intended to apply these measures was very con ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2687 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LIBERALS NOT PREPARED TO BARGAIN

... get rid of the Socialist, should stand down.” Mr., Wilson said they heard far too much from the Conservatives about the anti-Socialist vote, coupling with that the Liberal vote. It should be made clear that the Liberal was not anti-Socialist: he was a n ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LABOUR’S FAITH AND WORKS

... has always been very clear about what it wants to do. Our aim from the very beginning has been social regeneration, 'he Socialist conception of a new England grew out of the white slavery of the industrial evolution. Women working halfnaked in the coal ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GRADUAL REDUCTION OF CONTROLS

... Railways. The Socialists now mean to raise prices by nationalising iron, steel, cement and sugar, which they admit to be highly efficient industries. This proves that their object is purely political—the seizure of more economic power for the Socialist State ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 836 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HALIFAX

... HALIFAX Mr. Richard Holt Blackburn, a native of Sowerby Bridge, has been chosen as a prospective candidate by a group of anti-Socialists to contest the General Election in Halifax. Aged 43, Mr, Blackourn is managing director of Messrs. Turners (Spinners) Ltd ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PURPOSE OF DEMOCRACY

... heaven on earth, but we will promise to get nearer to it yet. We cannot alter men's minds all at once, but many parts of the Socialist aims of vears ago are now eagerly embraced by our opponents, so there is still hope. Socialism has not failed: like Christianity ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 834 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

1 am convineed that the Conservatives could do better than this. In 1938, with much the same building force, we

... Francisco they have been bedevilling the work and welfare of the people.” No doubt there are bad Tories as there are bad Socialists. But, by and large, I think we can claim to be at least as loyal, as hardworking, and as patriotic a community as any other ...

Published: Friday 10 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 548 | Page: 7 | Tags: none