UNITED FRONT
ITS AIMS STATED
MAKING THE RICH PAY
LEFT WING PACT
United Press Association—By Electric Tel*graph—Copyright. LONDON, January 17. The manifesto of the United Front, the formation of which was announced yesterday, announces a programme which includes:— Unity of all sections of the working class movement. Abolition of the means test. Introduction of the forty-hour week in industry and the Public Service. Paid holidays and higher wages, especially in the cotton, mining, and sweated trades. Pensions of 20s at 60. Nationalisation of mining. Control of the banks and the Stock Exchange.
Making the rich pay for social amelioration.
The signatories include:—Sir Stafford Cripps, leader of the Socialist League; Mr. Harry Pollitt, leader of the Communist Party; Mr. W. Gallacher, Communist member of Parliament for West Fife; Mr. James Maxton, M.P., chairman of the Independent Labour Party; and Mr. Fenner Brockway, general secretary of the * Independent Labour Party.
"The Times," in a leader declaring that the triple union is really a rebellion against the Labour Party, says the speciously-constructed - manifesto does not hide the central fact that the United Front is striking from within and without at the control of the Labour movement.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1937, Page 9
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193UNITED FRONT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1937, Page 9
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