NO LE S favour of NATO The campaign against missiles has become an im portant issue in the AUEW residential The leit-wing candidate, Bob Wright, explained his opposi tion to Cruise at a meeting of engineers in Oldham.
Bolton the shop stewards quarterly meeting supported of Bolton al ainst members Missiles to back and mobilise the Labour Party con ference demonstration.
Leaflets: are now circulating in many of the biggest Taccone. • It the Manchester Betty Crawford, conat Ferranti Measurements, has taken 500 leaflets for her workplace.
in the next fortnight activists will be going all-out for the maximum turnout of engineering workers.
called off.
Similarly in British Rail, even management acknowledges that there is a shortfall of 70,000 workers. yet a ban on recruitment has been introduced, forcing the workforce to put in long hours of overtime. The union leaders who voted for the TUE resolution have acquiesced in this situation.
Experience of this cowardly behaviour of the top officials in the face of an effective fight mounted by socialists will lead to an understanding of the rôle leaders. will show that the object can only be workers' power, not a vain hope for collaboration with the bosses.
The fight for transitional demands is thus inseparable from the methods of struggle adopted. Transitional demands are not some sort of trick whereby workers are invited to fight for demands to solve their immediate problems and end unwittingly establishing socialism.
The experience of fighting for these demands will lead to an appreciation o the sociati system socialist measures and an expulsion of the bosses from political and economic power as a conditien: of their lasting implementas tion: