THE recently papers for 1950 reveal the reactionary secret dealings tlee's Labour cabinet. last week's article on the Cabinet papers and Korea, ington looks at Attlee's attack on 'subversives' in Britain.
The Cabinet Papers for 1950 show what great responsibilities the Labour leaders taced in Korea nunism was fighting the Christian West and its tascist allv svaman Khee. tain 'agitators' were workers to do 'subversive' things like opposing Labour's wage freeze.
But the Cabinet responsibilities.
break strikes 1950. And Sir Hartlev Shawcross. the At. torney memorandum for the General, prepared Worker (then the daily paper of the Communist Party).
The val of all t withdrawal all foreign Korea' and China'. This was Shawcross called 'giving aid to the King's enemies' But the Cabinet ran Treason carried the death penalty. some ministers felt that lynching the Daily Worker staff might not well ther pubnic. released Cabinet of AtFollowing Bob PennCOGIES:
In Briinciting did not flinch from its It brought in the troops between 1945 and Party special cabinet on a pam.
JUDG called for 'the troops from even demanded 'Hands off and OT into a snag • go down too vacaunted Ine Cabinet then pondered on whether or not they could ban the CP Unfortunately for them this was not on the cards A disappointed Chuter Ede.
herbert erica ta Herbert Morrison, sadly explained 'public opinion would not support legislation on the lines of that inTroolCe• in AuStrala for the suppression of the Communist By November 1950 the war in Korea had intensified and the ucal Subversiver However in drafting a Bill for they were worried defendents might prove the truth of their allegations about imperialism in court, use the trials for political propaganda'.
Ede and Morrison told the Cabinet how to get round that small problem. Never mind asking the defendents to pro. ve the truth of their allegations, let's pen Lord Preside indoome President Secretary.
protect and his colleague, to stop the Lord President, stewarus. war against the British economy.
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The cabinet knew that it was necesary Workers themselves. After all they might go and take strike action to better their wages ol victimisation of their shop This could only jeopardise the reds' and damage the The Cabinet considered legislation to keep the workers in line, use of an 1875 act making gas and workers liable to criminal proceedings if they went on strike; a wartime order still in torce making it a legal requirement Tol workers to give 21 days notice of strike and the imposition of a secret This legislation set the scene for ine prosecution by the government of seven dockers who had led unofficial strikes for improved wages and condiThe cabinet were aware that subverjust stalk foreign fields; creeping Anti-fascist fighters from Europe concentration camps with them No Ede.
help CommuniSt find victims among try To маке doubt.
water and the later cabinets variably they put which profits before wages had a heritage subverted the law to do so.
They Saxon Christians who had against night.
rule for Scotland. and ex-inmates from Belsen and Dachau were coming Britain and bringing their 'foreign' ideas one knew this better than Chuter He told his cabinet colleagues: feeling that on the whole CONCIONS are likelier who have not been born or brought up in this counsure they did contaminate any Britons, Ede gave secret instructions for the introduction of a ban on appucations vor britisn naturalisatior retugees whose loyalty was in The Labour government of 1950, like the previous two MacDonald cabinets, of Wilson and Callaghan, was a cabinet of patriots. Incountry before class weans boss delores worker ane They knew they defend, they knew that it was white Anglo. 'civilised"
and other he or she can sleep safely in their bed at Next week: The 1950 Cabinet sabotages home
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foreigners As long as the monarch can be assured of having ministers like that,