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claimed. Coventry delegate Dave Patrick was the only delegate to mount the rostrum against this policy. He pointed out that "cheap foreign labour" was a myth, and that Tory Press jingoism and nationalist sabre rattling would increase massively, diverting from the real problems faced by workers.

"The real question is to re-equip British industry on the basis of nationalising the banks and monopolies under workers' control" he argued.

The motion was carried, however, with only a handful of principled votes against.

But to no avail. The Executive motion was defeated 2-1. The call for an immediate return to unfettered collective bargaining was passed by a similar margin.

ONE-THIRD And the sliding scale of wages motion, though defeated, won the backing of nearly one-third of the Conference-indicating the growing influence of a demand which two Jones now hands on a tarnished and dented crown to Moss Evans.

The leadership that hinged on the authority of the General Secretary at conference has suffered a major setback.

And the failure of the platform to give any build-up whatsoever to the incoming Evans means that he must now attempt to control a much strengthened left wing from a position of great weakness.

The question now for militants is to go forward from the conference to build on these gains, developing a conscious principled leadership to challenge the bureaucracy on every front.

JONES' SPURIOUS reputation as a great internationalist suffered a hefty kick during discussion on a composite motion against the Chilean dictatorship.

After Jones had worked through a long speech in which he wept crocodile tears for the workers tortured, murdered or incarcerated under Pinochet's regime, but proposed no policies whatsoever to support them, a London docks delegate interrupted just as the vote was to be put.

He pointed out that London dockers had a policy of blacking Chilean goods-but that in some areas dockers who implemented the policy were taken off the clock. Would the union back them— maybe make up their wages?

Jones fumbled, completely exposed. He mumbled a few words about how "complicated" these things were and said it would be "up to the executive"

The point was damningly made. bores crit not, anytone tonalist bureaucratic carry his "principles" to the point of supporting struggles against the employers at home.

if London dockers are to maintain their principled policy, they policy , they must fight Jones to do SO.

THE WORKERS in Sheffield, Oxford and Birmingham who spent long bitter months on picket lines in the struggle to win union rights within the giant Trust Houses Forte catering and hotels combine, only to be sold out by TGWU officials, were given a calculated insult by Jones. Moving executive support for a meaningless resolution on the Tourist Industry, Jones saw fit to hold forth on the need for the union to "pick up its responsibility to unionise" the industry in which there are well over 500,000 potential members.

But despite having personally followed the THF strikes, and having been confronted by angry strikers on one occasion occupying his office demanding national blacking to support this action.

Jones omitted any mention of their brave struggle.

Instead he "congratulated" "all those associated with building the union in a very, very difficult The motion, which simply called for a Minister for Tourism, and mallor nut no demands for suppor

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years ago was backed by only a pandful of delegates.