tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post5002684483158789892..comments2024-03-04T15:23:07.880+00:00Comments on Northern Voices: Jack Stevenson ObituaryBlanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-80688906556646822762018-04-04T12:33:27.591+01:002018-04-04T12:33:27.591+01:00I guess there must be two people called Ken Weller...I guess there must be two people called Ken Weller. The one I knew was aged at least 45 (not young?) in 1975. In the 1960s he told me how one of his jobs. in a London telephone exchange, was to route a list of numbers through the Central Tapping Exchange, where reports of odd noises and harassment by phone were investigated. No doubt the list of numbers included some from police and Intelligence services, but engineers in local exchanges did not know why particular numbers were tapped. Donald Rooumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-48066874358520483772018-04-04T12:31:38.513+01:002018-04-04T12:31:38.513+01:00Not sure, but according to the Editorial notes by ...Not sure, but according to the Editorial notes by the Hobgoblin Collective, 21 January 2011 based on an article by someone called David Brown, I found the following:<br /><br />'We publish for the first time the following text, written in 1975 as a letter to the membership of the Solidarity group – also known as ‘Solidarity For Workers Power’. This group was founded in 1960 by Chris Pallis, an eminent neurologist who wrote under the name “Maurice Brinton,” and Ken Weller, a young shop steward working in the motor industry.bammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13889214646896381113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-76572528639265954742018-04-04T12:28:02.358+01:002018-04-04T12:28:02.358+01:00Just one point: are you sure about Ken Weller'...Just one point: are you sure about Ken Weller's job?? When I knew him, he was a telephone engineer.Donald Rooumnoreply@blogger.com