Bribery, Bribery, Corruption Exposed

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The crisis within Newham North East Labour Party has reached a new stage with recent moves by the extreme right-wing to break up the The right wing infiltrators, led by Julian Lewis from Oxford, called an unconstitutional meeting of the Executive Committee which The scandal created by the September 22 speech by British Leyland chairman Sir Richard Dobson and his subsequent resignation from the €22,000 a year non-executive post has tended to focus on only a few questions.

Instead of debating whether effect a sub-comice ceiling a meeting of the committee which elected it.

Left wingers together with former allies of Lewis who have been forced to break from him took the principled decision to go ahead with the GMC.

Where the rule book had failed them, Lewis' gang resorted to other chairman of British Leyland should be an open racist like Dobson or a more tactful variety of capitalist, Leyland workers should be looking into some of the aspects of the Leyland set-up that Dobson's speech unveiled.

One key question is of course the issue of the existence of the hotly denied 'slush fund'. . Dobson's speech makes absolutely clear that methods. They changed all the locks on the party premises in order to prevent the GMC from taking place.

When this political tactic had been dealt with by a few well aimed kicks at the door, Lewis and his so-called 'constitutional advisor , Oxford don McCormick, disrupted the GMC meeting with the serving of more writs.

accuse the company of the perfectly respectable fact that it was bribing wogs?"

Attention has of course centred on the racialist overtones of this statement. But Dobson says openly that bribery is a "fact" and Leyland "was" doing it.

In the light of this admission, the case for a workers' enquiry to open Leylands books and examine the extent of this bribery is overAs we go to press summonses for contempt have been served against GMC delegates who took the principled step of opposing the right of the High Court to organise the business of the labour movement.

Action must be called to force the dropping of all charges and the expulsion of the crypto-Tory right wing agreed bill backed by both the Labour leadership and the Tories, with the sole intention of restricting abortion, in a desperate move of trade union officials and bureat cratised layers of convenors.

Union leaders, said Dobson:

"spend a lot of time saying ti people 'Get on with the job rather than walk out. Well now it' all right at the top level. It doesn' work ton well Inder Anarn "

Dobson understands th problems faced by officials ar; convenors and expands on th conflict between the collaboratio: of bureaucratic union leaders an: the feelings of their members:

"It has caused great interna stresses in the unions and up to : point the unions have come to b identified if not actually • witt management[!] at least with the Government, and seem to be co authors of the Government broken promises.

Management appreciation of thi union leadership is shown Dobson's comments on the working of the Ryder Plan in Leyland-ir which the central issue is clear!! the slashing of manning levels:

*It's a very good plan. It ha: three legs. The first leg was that i you had better industrial relations muustrias relatons wul prove 1 induntainl walotinen ..ill -better productivity.

The two other legs are capital investment and the third leg I am not terribly sure of. (Laughter). It doesn't really matter. The point is, the whole thing fails productivity "104 down don't harz