ARTHUR SCARGILL last Sunday pledged the backing of Hille for industrial reinstate Derek Robinson as convenor at the Longbridge plant.
But Bill Jordan. organiser of the AUEW, told over a thousand jeering delegates 'reinstate kabho' could not guarantee that the union's enquiry would find in favour of the sacked shop steward.
He went on to tell delegates that it was all very well sitting militant but it officials like himself that would have to carry the fight for Robinson and pick up the casualities on the way.
it Ine most arrogant assertive speech by a right official in the union for a long time.
Confident It showed that Terry Duffy and John Boyd, British Leyland shop stewards are so weakened that the combine will be unable to call for action if the national leadership does find against Robinson or tries to negotiate a Leyland chief Edwardes.
Delegates from the north-west and sociadist Challenge 17 January 1980 Yorkshire action West. Midland at the Assembly that he passing would be and wing compromise Michael Glasgow district of the union strongly criticised the union leadersnip but failed to mention the campaign which is starting to have an impact on the right wing.
That's the campaign sponsored by Engineers' Charter, the rank and file • paper in the union, for a ballot to remove the executive council of the union, if 10 per cent of the branches call forit. The Charter says that it has 200 of the necessary 280 branches for