Direct Action (SWF): Vol 5 #07 Nov 1950

The Syndicalist Workers Federation on: Govt increases conscription period to two years, North Thames gas strike, textile industry, Not Centralism but Federalism by Tom Brown, victory against Finland anti-strike legilsation.

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