Adwest strikers occupy Transport House

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LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE "The fight for a new leadership in the Monday 29 September at 7.30 p.m.

Hotel Victoria, 35 Station Road, Blackpool Sandra Plummer, conference delegate from St. Pancras South (speaking in personal Heslin, Socialist Press supporter still barred from membership by Oxford CLP workers' : pay claim was aur and rhetoric that they have Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX. Printed by Anvil Printers, London. lot necessarily reflect the views of the Workers Socialist League ing an "electoral college" to choose the Party leader, the GMWU . bureaucracy under David Basnett could follow suit -and tip the scales in favour of this measure, which had been expected to be defeated.

This appears to be linked to a bizarre "Keep Callaghan in to Keep Healey out" move which began at the time of the Party's Special Conference last May, and has gathered pace with the expectation that Callaghan may retire this autumn if he successfully defeats the Party reforms.

Union leaders (who for some reason regard Callaghan as dealt with by guest speaker Ted Heslin-still expelled from Oxford CLP for his support of Socialist Press at a special fringe meeting organised by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement on Monday September 29. Another platform speaker at that meeting will be Sandra Plummer, conference delegate from St. Pancras South CLP.

We urge Labour conference delegates to take part in this important discussion on the programme and perspectives on which to fight the right wing.

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As we go to press Adwest strikers and supporters have occupied Transport House in London in a determined effort to force TGWU General Secretary Moss Evans to meet them.

The occupation followed the latest mass picket outside the Adwest factory in Reading in support of strikers who were dismissed after taking action in defence of a victimised worker. Two pickets were arrested by Protest Immediately the mass picket finished several car loads of strikers and their supporters drove to Transport House to protest at the failure of the union to make the strike-now in its fifth month-official.

TGWU officials claimed that Evans was ill and National Organiser Ron Todd who was earlier in the day involved in negotiations on the Ford informed of the decision to occupy the union headquarters and later met the strikers.

Although TGWU officials announced that Evans would be able to meet the strikers the following day the occupation nevertheless continued, with plans for a demonstration in their support on the following morning in Smith Square.

Deaf ears

Previous efforts by the strikers to bring to the attention of the national leadership their dispute and the failure of local bureaucrats to make it official have fallen on deaf ears.

This is because the whole of the IGWU bureaucracy from Moss Evans down are determined not to back a strike which has been in the forefront of the fight against Prior's Employment Act, and which wóuld therefore require from the bureaucracy a' determined fight against this anti-union legislation rather than the hot settled for instead.

A previous intervention the national leadership of TGWU failed to persuade l officials to back the strike.. time Evans must be forced to instruct the Regional Committee to give official backing to the strikers.

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