Obituary: Peter Newell
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Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!"Peter felt his union activities conflicted with his membership of the Party . . . "Could Kaz expand on this? I'm intrigued.
'I resigned for "personal reasons", not disagreement. I was fed-up with the controversies, although I was somewhat controversial. I tended (but only tended) towards the Turnerites. My father had died fairly recently. My girlfriend/companion had to get a job abroad (in Holland). I wanted a change of job. Hardy suggested I go into the Post Office, become active in the Union; and more or less got me work writing for "The Post", the official journal of the UPW. Although I did not join the Labour Party, or even support it, the union was affiliated to the L.P. This did not worry Hardy. But I decided to resign from the S.P.' (from a letter from Peter Newell).
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