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in the Labour Movement from G. Webster, 169 Barclay Road, Smethwick, West Midlands conference of all is even worse.

Only 35 of the 200 BL convenors come from • the TGWU. Yet the TGWU represents 80% of the BL workforce!

The rest are made up of craft union convenors often representing ridiculously tiny numbers of workers in particular plants, whose conditions are entirely different to those of production workers.

It was to this completely farcical assembly that the JNC then turned to rubber stamp its betrayal of the strike.

The vote for the sell-out was overwhelming. The wishes of 43,000 workers-including virtually the whole of the Bringing together recent material published in Socialist Press, this new pamphlet details the crisis in BL, the collaboration of the union leadership with Edwardes on the future of BL title lital: :14:1*2L Price 42p including p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX.

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manual workforce at the giant Longbridge complex and the Cowley Assembly and Body plants-were contemptuously brushed aside.

In the aftermath of this betrayal, a meeting of the Joint Shop Stewards at the Cowley Assembly Plant voted with only one against to endorse the following demand for the implementation of democratic procedures in tuture pay negotiations:

"This meeting has no confidence in the JNC or the convenors conference. They have sold out our claim. They had no authority whatever to override the 42,000 mass vote of the members. If they wanted to capitulate to Edwardes they had an obligation to recall the mass meetings and seek the support of the members for their position.

We call for an end to the existing unrepresentative negotiating structure within BL. We call for a new structure based on a representative delegate conference reflecting the size of the individual plants. This conference should elect the JNC and the JNC should be responsible to it.

This would bring a degree of democracy into our negotiating procedures."

A full analysis of the situation in BL following the sellout will appear in next week's Socialist Press.

Basnett Hunterston JSSC Conference on basic trade union rights Partick Burgh Hall GLASGOW Monday November 10 a.m.

THE LEYLAND CONVENORS HAYE VOTED FOR STRIKE ACTION! 'RIGHT! ILL TAKE A ROLI CALL:

DAVID; CLNE; ALEX; TERRY; FRANK;

JOE.. JOE?.. WHERE'S THAT JOE GORMLEY?

CHIPPING AWAY AT THE N.UM, CLAIM, OFISHALL TUC defend jobs.

they did. defend jobs.

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