Nur Fights Nf
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conference to discuss the lessons of these disputes as a starting point for a strategy to win all three struggles.
Send delegations to the conference on Thursday 30 April, 7pm, Transport House, Smith Square, London SW1.
Donations to the Garners strike fund and messages of support should be sent to: TGWU, Room 84, 12-13 Henrietta St. London WC2 DESPITE MOVES by Jack Dromey, the APEX bureaucracy and the TUC to kill and bury the Grunwick strike, the Strike Committee is calling a delegate conference of supporters, to be held at the Wembley Conference Centre on May 14.
Two delegates per union NUR leaders have voted to take severe action including fines or of the National Front.
General Secretary Sid Weighell said last week that the aims and tactics of the National Front were inconsistent with the duties of officers and members within the union.
Such measures-no doubt spurred on by rank and file hostility to extravagant NF claims of membership in the railway industry - are necessary in every union to outlaw membership of this fascist grouping.
But the way the case was argued by Weighell opened up the prospect of a dangerous extension of these measures.
Weighell centred his argument on the fact that NF propaganda had attacked rail union leaders. Apparently, NUR bureaucrats vigorously object to being called 'communists', Railwaymen must ensure that the measures taken against the NF do not become a pretext for an attack on the democratic rights of socialist opponents of Weighell and his treacherous cronies.
Amongst the choice arguments used by the right wing at the Trades Council were two particular gems.
Steel band
In answer to charges that Kilpatrick is a racist it was argued that since he allowed steel bands to play at his hotel and employed black workers this could not be so.
(These pathetic attempts must rank with the efforts of a right-wing Labour Party member who, casting about for an argument to defend last year's budget finally came up with the point that raising the price of cigarettes, which are after all dangerous to your health, could not be considered an anti-working class measure).
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expulsion from the union against known members