Dirty tricks
Socialist Press1981 1981-06-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Resorting to skulduggery where they are not confident of winning support, the TGWU bureaucracy this week attempted to manoeuvre all discussion on Labour's deputy leadership off the agenda of the union's conference.
An Executive resolution on support for the Labour Party was withdrawn and submitted for compositing in order to ensure that an amendment pledging the union's votes to Tony Benn would not be debated.
And three emergency resolutions supporting Benn were ruled out of order by the Standing Orders Committee.
The only hope of obtaining a discussion on the issue as we go to press hangs on the ability of Broad Left supporters • later this week to. successfully defeat the plattorm and secure a reference back of the Standing Orders Committee's proposed agenda.
Monday also saw a lobby of Rover carworkers fighting the closure of their Solihull plant.
Asked by Cowley delegate Alan Thornett to say whether the TGWU would give official backing to these workers if they occupied the factory, automotive negotiator Grenville Hawley declared:
"I doubt if that would be refused."
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