The photographer's name is He is a freelance photographer who was employed at the time by the Mail. According to Oxford police, the car in which he drove off after he had threatened Thornett with a revolver is owned by the Mail. Visited Cramp himself is a member of central London free-lance branch of the National Union of Journalists. He is photographed here sitting in a car. Also pIctured are 'reporters' on the story, Robert Porter and Harry Longmuir.
Alan Thornett and other members of the WL had for LWU weeks been followed around and harassed by Mail employees. Supporters of the WSL newspaper, Socialist Press, had been rung up at al and 'visited' by the paper's hacks. Guns - Last Wednesday Cramp took picture Thornett. When Alan took his camera from him in order to expose the film, Cramp pulled a revolver. When he got camera back Cramp drove off at high speed.
Within minutes Porter and Longmuir arrived on the scene.
The editorial in the Dail Mail on Monday 14 July was headed, Totalitarians of the Left emerge'. For a newspaper that in the 1930s supported Oswald Mosley's fascist party, the word 'totalitarian' is a bit rich. The editorial ends urging the right wing in the Labour Party to 'fight, fight, and fight again'.
The question now is: fight with what? Guns?
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