Conference called to fight witch-hunt

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proceeding.

Sponsors of a national conference for TGWU members to be held on April 8 in Oxford have now produced two leaflets, one of which appeals for additional support and carries the names of 90 leading TGWU members.

These sponsors-including several senior stewards as well as branch secretaries, branch chairmen, officers of stewards committees and prominent shop stewards-indicate broad response to the victimisation.

Strong representation Support has come from a range of industries, with the docks and the car industry to the fore, and with strong representation from TGWU Region 5the Regional Finance and General Purposes Committee of which is carrying out the witch-hunt.

We understand that TGWU members are circulating this material to most branches in Region 5 and to union committees in most areas.

Mean further e the witcl militants stepped week.

While employers ridence of the motiv -hunt of Trotskyist as Leyland manage up their offensive Incentives All Leyland workers received a joint management/union document on the Job Evaluation Scheme which contains moves towards introducing job comparability.

The objective is to drive down all working conditions to a common level, in exchange for meagre 'parity' wage payments.

The second string to management's bow is an incentives plan designed to use the union apparatus to speed up the workforce.

Opposition

Leyland senior stewards theory opposed this but eed to put it to a com gave e for i and nent last have they lanywide ballot with explanatory information produced jointly with management-giving a strong chance of acceptance.

The Joint Shop Stewards Committee at the Cowley Assembly Plant however has called for opposition to the ballot, and for plants to decide individually at mass meetings.

This is the leadership the TGWU bureaucracy want to destroy in Cowley by expulsion from the union or by banning key militants from office.

The conference to fight the witch-hunt will be held at 1pm on April 8 and is open to TGWU members only.

Delegations

We urge all our supporters to fight for delegations to attend this conference, for union bodies to condemn the witch-hunt and to build the campaign to force the officials to drop the trumped up charges. Under threat of expulsion Alan Thorne

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