FRANK Chapple has maintained his reputation as the trade union movement's most open scab, enthusiastically backing the campaign by the Tory press against the TUC's Day of Action on 14 May.
Writing in the Daily Express — whose hysteria against the TUC has reached such a pitch that it refers to "Lenin Murray' — Chapple said that the Day of this hysterical "it has been taken over by left-wing extremists'. No suggestion of constitutional irregularities, merely that it had a political complexion that Frank didn't like This follows the suspension of the Birmingham branch on similar grounds To round off his dirty work for the week, as the Daily Express (with which Chapple seems to have a particularly pally relationship) 'exclusively' revealed ' the Electricians' Union is preparing a 'report' to the Labour Party demanding a purge of the left. Socialist Challenge will be profiling the life and times of Frank persuaded