A leaflet produced by Northern Ireland comrades in the 1960s which is a reminder to those such as Ken Loach who
look back on the 1945-51 Attlee Labour government with nostalgia that Old
Labour was always just as bad.
LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND THE WORKERS
Your Labour candidate will advise you that you can improve
your conditions of life by voting Labour. His Party, the Northern Ireland
Labour Party, are at one with the British Labour Party. Below we give some
details of Labour Government in Britain:
(1) Used CONSCRIPT TROOPS to BREAK strikes.
(2) Imposed a "PAY
PAUSE" and "INDUSTRIAL CONSCRIPTION."
(3) Used (in peace
time) a wartime Order 1305, in an effort to have striking trade unionists
JAILED.
(4) Had workers
RESISTING BLACK-LEG LABOUR sentenced to IMPRISONMENT and FINES under old PROPERTY-PROTECTION ACTS of 1875.
(5) Agreed to, and
tried to justify, the dropping of the FIRST A-Bomb on Hiroshima.
(6) Safeguarded
the interests of British capitalism by nationalisation of bankrupt industries.
(7) Sent
British troops to AID DUTCH IMPERIALISM, and IMPRISONED and
BANISHED African leaders.
(8) Imposed the FIRST CHARGES on the "free" Health
Services.
This is but a small part of Labour's black record when it
waged war against the workers in the interests of British capitalism between
the years 1945 and 1951. We challenge our Labour opponents to deny or
"explain" these terrible happenings.
In this Election the UNIONIST AND LABOUR candidates stand
for the MAINTENANCE of CAPITALISM. Only the WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY challenges
the capitalist system and proposes an alternative—SOCIALISM.
BEFORE VOTING YOU HAVE A DUTY TO CONSIDER THE SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE.
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