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A recall Conference on Wage Control and Union Democracy is to be convened on March 27th by the ad-hoc Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement.

This was decided at a meeting of the campaign's organising committee held in Birmingham on December 18th, which also adopted a policy statement on the struggle against wage control, the cuts and unemployment as the Committee's resolution to the recall Conference.

Last October the first Conference attracted nearly 300 delegates and visitors to Digbeth • Hall, Birmingham.

This support was a significant indication of the growing hostility within the workers movement to wage control policed by the TUC This resistance had broken out during the campaign for the first Conference in the form of the Seamen's vote for strike action - and has continued since with pay struggles in the car component industry and in Fleet Street.

Soaring prices can only further stoke up this pressure for wages in the working class, and bring right to the centre of workers' attention the necessity for a struggle to end at once all forms of wage control, and to win substantial catching up claims tied to automatic rises to iT i keep pace with the cost of living. • Socialist Press, which gave its full support to the first Conference, calls now on all readers and supporters to campaign to make this recall Conference an even bigger and more representative meeting of all those militants prepared to take up the struggle for an alternative programme against the treacherous social contract defended by the Labour and TUC bureaucrats.

We will carry the full text of the statement for the Conference in our next issue. Enquiries about the Conference and requests for copies of the statement should be sent to the Conference Secretary, Kevin Lee, 44, Devonshire Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham 20.