“CAULDRON BOILING”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1943, Page 4

“CAULDRON BOILING”

RELEASE OF MOSLEY ■ DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE HOUSE OF COMMONS. OUTSPOKEN LABOUR LEADERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 7. Another demonstration against the release of Sir O. Mosley was held outside the House of Commons today when more than one thousand trade union representatives assembled and demanded Mosley’s reinternment. The delegates were chiefly from the war factories and represented steelworkers, engineers and miners. The leader of one deputation from a torpedo factory said: “We are trying to increase production but it is impossible to argue with workers when Fascists are being released. Some of Mosley’s associates have jobs in factories where .they are making trouble. Fascist slogans have been chalked on the walls.” The spokesman for another deputation said: “The cauldron is boiling among Sheffield workers.” A Welsh miner declared: “We miners will stop at nothing until Mosley is put back.” Two women carried a petition signed by twelve hundred Nottingham housewives.

The police allowed about fifty representatives to enter the central lobby of the House of Commons where they buttonholed members of Parliament as they came out of the chamber.