East Hull Labour Party oarried a reselution salling on the government to take an independent initiative for peace, The City Party Executive took emergency action in sending a resolution to the Prime Minister asking him to initiate action inline with the 195 Geneva Convention. The Hull Trades Council's reso-Ution on the subject, sent to the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and Hull's three Labour M.P.s reads in part: "this Trades Council represents those sections of the Labour movement which fought long and hard for the defeat of the Tory government. We believed that the result ef that defeat would be a new and virile secialist foreign policy. Instead, to eur disgust, we find ourselves trailing behind the representatives of the nost brutal and prédatery capitalist: state in the world, with whem we have nothing in common," The West Hull Io socialists resclved that Jim Johnson, West Hull's M.P., should identity Rinself with the signatoties of the left wing resolution calling for independent government action on Vietnam, er failing that, for him to resign his position as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Land and Natural Resourses, follawing the example set by Frank Allaun. North Hull's M.P., Henry Selomons, though by no means a left winger, has signed the House of Commons metion demanding a debate on “lee Douglas Home's "craven care" speech,
M.C.F., C.N.D., and the Labour Peace Fellowship in the town have formed a joint standing committee to en ordinate protest action: they are planning a second march through the town, following the successful demonstration of la&’t month, and an all night vigil in the town centre.
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