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In the summer of 1962 Roy Haddon, the eventual general manager of York Housing Association, was working for Customs and Excise. But he spent his evenings and nights running the CND Campaign Caravan from a tiny London office donated by the Independent Labour party.
A busload of supporters made a 7,000-mile trip around Britain, organising events with hundreds of local CND groups, involving leading activists, academics and trade unions, with a good deal of direct action at US military bases.
Crises along the way included the arrest of campaigners outside the Labour party conference at Blackpool. But Roy ran an efficient office, keeping the funds flowing in and us on the road – and maybe even contributing to the chances of the 1963 Test Ban Treaty.
