IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

NUR leaders condemn Weighell

Socialist Challenge No. 185, 19 February 1981 · p. 12 of the scan · 196 words

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page 12 of the scan

SID WEIGHELL, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, union leaders anxious to give MPs a majority vote in the election of the Labour Party leader.

He would be happy, he had said, to 'spit in the eye' of anyone who supports the 40-30-30 decision taken at Wembley. statement is from 13 members of the NUR's national executive.

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