Harringay scene of anti-cooperative campaign in 1929

Another little gem from Hansard:

The National Traders' Defence League has for years past conducted a campaign right through the country on the basis that the co-operative movement, instead of being a steadying and stabilising influence, in the words of the right hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne), is in fact a social menace. It is only a few weeks ago that Mr. Robert Walker and His friends placarded the whole district of Harringay on the opening of a new co-operative branch telling the public to be aware of the co-operative menace. This gentleman was one of the prime movers in the co-operative boycott in the 'nineties.

Interesting since Harringay was also home to Henry Harvey Vivian, one of the leaders of the co-operative movement in the early part of the twentieth century