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Doing what comes naturally

Socialist Press no. 100, 19 May 1978 · scan pp. 10–11 · about 156 words

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Hugh Scanlon argued at the AUEW conference in Worthing that British Airways should buy US Boeings containing Rolls Royce engines.

Ken Gill, a leading Communist Party member, opposed this by saying that they should buy British planes from British Aerospace.

That two union leaders can argue in such a way under conditions where most component suppliers to the aircraft industry are privately owned, where the banks are in private hands and where the workers in the industry have no control shows how much the Stalinists and reformists have been drawn into thinking first of the interests of British capitalism.

The conference passed unanimously a resolution containing Gill's nationalism as opposed to Scanlon's nationalism.

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It remains to whether Scanion w this sideline as aircraft salesman retirement as president.

be seen ill pursue Boeing's after his AUEW

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Seated in front of the divisive slogan "Career Security-Our Top Priority", the Executive at ASTMS's 10th Annual

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 100, 19 May 1978