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The resolutions passed at this conference, held in Scarborough, made it clear that UCATT members will not pay for the economic crisis by accepting wage-cutting and unemployment.
Central to this of course is the question of leadership. A motion ence in the Exective for their past handling of their wage claim as well as a motion 'deprecating' the attitude of the Executive. Another motion rejecting the idea put about by the employers and their newspapers- that wage increases are the main cause of inflation - and condemning the social contract as a "subtle form of wage-cutting" was also carried as was also a motion calling for a campaign throughout the area against the 'lump'.
The bureaucracy made its position clear on the question of the Shrewsbury 2. They refused to allow an emergency resolution to be put calling for the mobilisation of the working class to free the Shrewsbury 2 - one of whom is a UCATT member. Delegates from the Hemsworth branch stated that they had sent in such a resolution which had not got on to the printed agenda. An important resolution put forward a programme to fight unemployment and wage-cutting on which the union's national leadership has no policy. This