Peter Coles, TGWU branco secretary Lambeth, told delegates that he had come to the conference to look for sup. port for a fight against the SCle without support TEne ones will be able to defeat Lambeth, and any group workers who fight.
The Tories frighten people,' Cole told the conference, 'but they're TED Knight and most of Lambeth's controlling Labour group voted on 12 January to levy a supplementary rate of 20p in the pound in direct opposition to the Lambeth-inspired 'Local Government in Crisis' held last November.
Knight, the council leader, accused LOOSE Labour councillors who wanted fight LIC Tories by refusing to implement cuts or raise the being socialists', In a bitter exchange at the end of a special council meeting. • Knight said that the call for direct fight Thatcher and which would be an inevItable result or not raising rates, could not be supported by the majority Lambeth councilors because it 'has no backing whatsoever IrOm the national Labour and TUC leadersnip.
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