UC recommends use of 'gag' Rule 15
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NELS A TUC representative was sent to the September meeting of the Oxford and District Trades Union Council in an attempt to collect evidence to throw out delegates leading opposition to the dictatorial rule of President John Power.
The TUC-in the person of a nervous looking bureaucrat-sat silent among observers until flushed out by one delegate who demanded to know why his presence had been kept quiet as if delegates were 'criminals'!
A letter from the TUC was read out by Power exhorting him to use Rule 15 to expel delegates and threatening to disaffiliate the Trades Council if the right wing did not tighten their grip.
copy The TUC were writing in reply to a letter from Power, a copy of which he had not kept and was thus unable to read out.
But the meeting-attended by more than 80 delegates-showed little prospect of his grip being tightenend.
A right wing move . to stop discussion of Power's abuse of democratic procedure was defeated, and Power a move to suspend standing orders to allow discussion to continue won a 48-32 majority, being defeated only by the lack of a two-thirds majority.: