Socialist Club Shows Documentary

The election was followed by a film. "Men of Rochdale," borrowed from the Labour Party. This documentary was a history of the Co-operative Movement from its struggling beginnings in the town of Rochdale in Lancashire in the forties of last century. In a short fifty minutes those present saw and heard an informative and inspiring story of the fight of English men and women to form among themselves some sort of defence against poverty and exploitation. It was made quite clear that these workers did not envisage the co-operative movement as any end in itself, but regarded it only as a step forward on the way to socialism. It is in terms of this conviction that, in the concluding section of the [unclear: win], they pass judgment on contemporary England and state, "Our work is not yet done."