[The opportunist nature of the union officials who…]
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The opportunist nature of the union officials who are members • of the Communist Party was shown clearly by the recent move of Bernard Panter, who after losing his job as an AUEW district official, gave up nis membersnip Lin tarantains both of the AUEW and of the CP, in a bid to get a job with the right-wing Electrical and Power Workers Union.
Now another leading Communist Party member, Pat Farelly, who was recently defeated in the election for Southern Divisional Organiser, and who had been a union affirial fur nearlu 20 vears Bagnall, company, negotiate members!
the fork-lift truck firm he 1 to with on behalf FIRST-CLASS The firm said:
«With his union background we feel he is a first class man for this employee relations job." As long as Farelly was ready, while an official, to do the job of the CP and attack Trotskyists during the occupation struggles against the closure of the BLMC Thorneycroft's factory in Basingstoke a couple of years ago, the CP made no criticism of him.
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