By ANDREW WOBBLEY JEd FRANK THOMPSON A DAILY MAIL special investigation has uncovere the onrefullv guarded background Tony Kelly, a Labour Party official in the Newham North-East constituency, has been the focal point of the press smear campaign to save Prentice. His personal life nas been aragged unrougn the gutter, and minor criminal orrences committed years ago - such as stealing a road lamp and possessing cannabis - have become headline Not once have the members of Newham North-East Labour Party who want to drop Prentice been allowed to explain their political reasons for wanting to do so. If anyone has been the victim of a witch-hunt in 'the Prentice affair it is these people. They have been accused of being a tiny handful of unrepresentative people, despite the fact that any successful motion to sack Prentice would have to be supported by a majority of delegates to the General Management Committee representing 20 separate wards, trade unions and affiliated bodies.
Ivot so tne capitalist press. Inree corporations own b4 per cent or all national daily newspapers and 94 per cent of popular daily circulation. The Daily Mail, which has spearheaded the campaign against Kelly, has suddenly developed a touching interest in the welfare of the Labour Party. This rag, which preaches doom and destruction for the workers' movement if Prentice goes, has a memorable record: in the past it has supported Moslev, Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, while more recently it slandered the Shrewsbury Two while they were in jail and unable to reply to such aTtacKs.
Militants in the labour movement will reply by giving their wholehearted support The wife and children Ton Kelly left eight years ago
-red weekly 24 july 1975