10,000 marched against the missiles last week in Sheffield operations preparing for nuclear war took place throughout Britain last weekend.
thousand volunteers under the control of UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation - part of the Royal Ordinace Corps - spent the weekend living In hardened 'mini-bunkers' throughout the country.
CND supporters in Cleveland gained access to the confidential details of the operation. We visited olme bunkers which ring Tesside to lay a wicall comme morals the half million Clevelanders who would die if the exercise was for real.
We were refused access across private land to the bunker which was guarded by plain clothes police. But the wreath was later Socialist Challenge public meeting Speaker: Brian Heron, Dress onucer or cavour missiles conference 7.30pm, 1 April. All Saints Centre, Church House, Middlesbrough Down a bunker in Cleveland laid at local bunker, which was unguarded after a decoy car had taken our Special Branch friend on a wild goose chase.
Peter Smith of the Cleveland CND said Aboul unree or four of these operations are held every year, but we do not always get to hear of them.
I appears mey are belg stepped up.
'Our protest is aimed the public realise that the unthinkable becoming more thinkable these al c wal preparations. Asked how the campaign found out about the exerLabour Movement Conference on Missiles Socialist Challenge Meetings Lunch-time in the small assembly hall at UMIST Speakers from Socialist Challenge, the FDR of El Salvador, Labour CND and Royal Pride also Immediately after the conference in the small assembly hall at UMIST Film on El Salvador with FDR speaker cise, Smith explained: 'When underground activity, Cleveland's moles are the best in the world.' By Rob Johnson, Cardiff CND CARDIFF CND's week of action from 13 to 21 March grea success.
The main included showings of The War Game to over 1300 mass petitioning and leafletting in Cardiff City centre 2000 signatule were collected in 3 hours and a public meeting •EI Salvador. Ine war drive, who profits? attended by 100 people Alan Harris for the E Salvador Solidariti Campaign and KOT Johnson analysed the war BELS enec semi-colonial countries such as t Salvador tact with US Imperialism.
was also taken up by EP Thompson at a meeting of nearly 1000 people The War Game was again shown. To round off the week, 1000 people marcnea l torrential rain and sleet through the centre Cardiff the Office.
The demonstration called for jobs not bombs and ended a rally addressed by local labou movement speakers, Alan Wales CD; add Darydd Lipman, co-ordinator Ellis Thomas vice president of Plaid Cymru and MP for Merioneth.
With a Pat Arrowsmith reading CND membership it was a cent increase in highly successful week of action.
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