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have seized on the fact that cies, acting General Secretary rather than hiring extra staff, the "dole queue" in the comp- Reg Underhill has taken the which might have helped to cut osite picture on the Tory dramatic step of complaining to unemployment-even if only for posters is in fact a group of the Advertising Standards Auth- one day!

Labour's Secretary for Rooker bitterly complained of that even the synthetic picture Unemployment, Albert Booth, the irony that Saatchi and amounts to only the smallest went further, and attacked the Saatchi were Working for the fraction of the 1½ million advertising agency, Saatchi and Tories at the same time as workers currently consigned to Saatchi, for using their existing holding a Government contract the dole queues by Labour poli- employees in the photograph, for advertising the fraudulent The confused fight inside Holborn and St. Pancras GMC over the recent selection of the Labour candidate to contest the next election has predictably fizzled out.

This followed a manoeuvre by the Executive Committee who managed to put the numerous resolutions condemning the undemocratic selection procedure as one composite resolution, thus rendering them worthless.

Delegates opposed this move strongly but without success. Most of the critical resolutions called for a re-examination of selection procedure and deplored the action of the representative from Transport House, who, through the chair, forbade A £2 million Tory pre-election publicity campaign highlighting Labour's policy of mass unemployment has struck a raw nerve for both right and 'left' wing bureaucrats.

Devoid of any political answer to the Tories, they any individual discussion of nominees on the Executive's short list, or of those left off the list.

This was proved to be a non existent rule invented for the occasion by Transport House.

But the majority of the resolutions, even while condemning the selection procedure, endorsed right-winger Frank Dobson as their prospective MP and were passed easily.

No confidence A more controversial resolution was put by St. Pancras branch. This called for a vote of no confidence in the GMC and the EC.

The voting on this was very close: 10 for and 12 against, but the resolution itself was completely inadequate, advertising agency employees. ority!

Happily ignoring the fact Even if their resolution had been passed it would only have meant a reelection of GMC delegates and a new EC.

Such a move would in no way have reversed the outcome of the sele ction result and Holborn an d St. Pancras South would still have been saddled with right winger Frank Dobson.

A Socialist Press supporter put forward a motion calling on the NEC to announce the result of the selection meeting null and void because of „the undemocratic procedure.

This comrade argued that as most of the resolutions already passed agreed that the selection had been undemocratic, the only way 'a democratic decision could be reached was that the whole process should begin again.

This comrade also condemned the position taken by the delegates from St. Pancras branch in resigning from all positions on the EC.

This, she said, let the right-wing off the hook and would give them even more room to manoeuvre and manipulate the GMC.

This motion received 5 votes and the Socialist Press supporter was accused of taking the GMC to the "edge of an abyss"

It seems it is perfectly alright verbally to criticise the obviously undemocratic procedures ' inside the Labour Party, as long as no concrete action is proposed against it!

And Labour 'left' Jeff "job creation" agency, the Manpower Services Commission.

The fact that none of these "leaders" will face up to is of course that the Tories would be completely unable to exploit mass unemployment if Labour had implemented a programme of socialist policies to put an end to it.

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