Kelly Appeal Thrown Out
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The of Hendon magistrates called sponsored entrade anion Inquir by the Right to Work into the attack which has receive of union leaders. The findings of th FT,, Appearing before the court inquiry are expected shortly ITS were 44 Right to Work Meanwhile money hee ill marchers. arrested after the pouring in for a defence fund froi • police three time violently union branches and shop steward attacked the Campaign's The worke national manch against from further police unemployment as it passed and from the courts is a basic issu lo cheers from the pickets, the such actions os a further indicatio Looputti Wehinidwa large Right ito woworkers movement.
before _disappearing into the court ok the power the state through an enormous contingent of intimidate and attack the workir polive around the gate class - from the continued jailing .
Those supporting the packed the Shrewsbury pickets th later for police iran lonnihemprenises píck demonstratiom i to « Heroni police Workers Revoluttonal Pany er station near- Staplesni Cornert and autumn.
on the original march which led to therefore linked completel the arres of some of the 44. the demand that the narch organiser and secretary, Di anti-working class ; Jenkins-Healey the National Richt to Work Callaghan clique from the Labou Campaigr., John Deason. was leadership.
As Labour Party bureaucrats and right wing union officials redouble their efforts to restore Reg Prentice anti-union former Education Minister, as Labour candidate in the next election in Newham North East, the abuse of rules and democratic procedures hots up all round.
Tony Kelly, Newham NE CLP Secretary has suffered a further attack at the hands of the ASTMS bureaucracy.
First he was unconstituționally expelled from ASTMS membership in a bid to exclude him as a New.
ham NE GMC delegate from the Charing Cross ASTMS Branch.
• This took place with the personal involvement of General Secretary Cúve Jenkins, keen to prove his respectability to the Labour Party right-wing.
Jenkins used the formula of declaring that Kelly had "never of About 15,00 trades he unionists attendedi thenpicket 1i- Campaign, on 21st May.
the end of its her nymow Manchester, 44 arrested marchers marched up to WAnk banner, chanting slogans scene of one of the three incidents OK the 44, 4B were remandelli on bai until September, while the remanded on more serious charges been a member of ASTMS" on th pretext that the NEC had nc approved his membership appli ation.
This, of course, if taken seriou Ly would exclude virtually ever member of ASTMS. It is simply transparent means of victimisin Kelly.
Immediately this was_know Kelly submitted an appeal to th NEC. The reply was predictabl but blatant. Muriel Turner, assistar general secretary of ASTMS ha written to Kelly explaining that h cannot appeal - because he is not member!
We urge all ASTMS members t take up this issue and fight fc resolutions to the NEC protestin at this bureaucratic victimisatio and demanding Kelly's full rei statement as a member of th union.
TAMESIDE
TRADES UNION COUNCIL untu Juy.
Barner trades Council hE backing of prominent trac committees all over the countr ot principle the worker The fact that right wing Hom Scuretary Roy Jenkins is atlow i hy Labour ''lefts" to preside ove alith; incent for new, leadershi pain Jenkins has specialised in the us I he defence of the am offensive within the labou movement as a whole to oust th