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SUNDAY, September 21, 1941, was a busy day, with thousands of men registering, at various labour exchanges in Glasgow, for war-time civil defence duties. “Men in dungarees or wearing oil-stained suits and caps were more numerous than those in the neatly-pressed suits of the church-goer”, this newspaper reported. “Ministers, elders, and male members of congregations in the age groups from 45 to 59 were responsive to the call to preserve the home front against the ravages of fire, but the fact that so many men were in working clothes indicated the intensity of the war effort in fact...

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The 18-month prohibition was the longest ban imposed on any newspaper by government order in British history. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison – grandfather of New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson – justified the ban on the grounds that the Daily Worker was undermining the war effort.  When challenged in Parliament over this, he was unable to point to any specific evidence – instead defending the ban as a preventive measure based on the likelihood of it doing so. Left-wing MPs including Nye Bevan protested at the use of wartime emergency powers to ban our paper, while in the trade union m...