THE concern over the files is not the first time the issue of secret employment blacklists has been raised in the UK.
Former Glasgow MP and anti-blacklist campaigner, Maria Fyfe, gave evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee this year about the Economic League, a right-wing vetting agency which accumulated files on thousands of people it considered subversive.
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