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 | The Clarion Scout . | |
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Scout was launched in 1895 to promote, and report on, the activities
of the different Clarion groups (these would appear to have been quasi-communist groups), and to provide the activists with
information which would assist them in 'making Socialists'. The extract below is from the February 1896 issue. |
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| A SCOUTING ACHIEVEMENT. I am a most successful person. During this Christmastime, I was for a fortnight at a place called Dolgelly, in North Wales. On the New Year's Eve, soon after midnight, the Primrose League Fife and Drum Band marched round the town. Yours faithfully joined in the procession close behind the band and succeeded in sticking three stickers on the big drum, one on each of the kettle-drums. and one on the back of the big drummer, where the straps cross each other. They allowed me to stick them on, thinking they were New Year Greetings. Oh what a brandishing of fifes and drumsticks next morning, or rather, when daylight revealed the reality, Dolgelhy was labelled red on New Year's Eve -Yours, A. Ernest Jones. |
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| Lidchester Leads the Way. Clarion 12, February 1960, pp.11 & 12. Peter Sedgwick. |
| (The following snippet is taken from the above mentioned publication found in the Marxists' Internet Archive) |
| Lidchester East has Miss Lettice Bircham as the Conservative candidate. Readers will remember Miss Bircham's plea, at the Primrose League dinner last year, for the compulsory castration of consenting adult homosexuals, particularly if they were Labour voters (which, as she screamed, they always are!). |
| (Perhaps Miss. Bircham should have applied her comments to the marxists' as well!) |
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