Sunday 31 May Assemble noon at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park for march to Trafalgar Square Sponsors include West Midlands, SE and NW regional TUCs. Irish TUC (Belfast), Manchester City Labour Party, Labour Party, NUM, TGWU, Engineering section of AUEW, Tobacco Workers, Sheetmetal Workers, USDAW, SLADE, Tailor & Garment Workers, NUPE and the civil servict union SCPS.
Trains and coaches are country-wide.
Socialist Challenge 2 April 1981 Nw kegional council or lne GMWU, FBU, being laid on walkinson Hovellerie demonstration after the nexu autumn Gordon Will, west Midlands NUPE, took up the same theme, explaining that in 1974/5 for every £l spent on defence, some 96p was spent on housing By 1979 the housing figure was down to 70p and the Tories was planned to nosedive to 33p by 1984.
ian he said. in date 1984 is, he said. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four the minister of war was known as the minister for peace. Similariy today the "Ministry of Defence" is really the Ministry for War Speakers the continued, power to strike oul ine bomb, and we have to use it.
John Parkinson, secretary Trades Council and the Campaign against you Dial. Uranium Contract, argued for CND imperialist.
"Uranium workers In Namibia are doubly pressed, by the repression and work contry but the threatened use of nuclear weapons their uranium had helped create against their own revoultion. It is Transport and General Workers
Policy appeal unanimously passed by the conference We, the undersigned, support a campaign to win every branch, committee and conference of the labour movement, particularly the TUC and the Labour Party, to the following position:
¡seT to copose baus nucical wcabuns, val" ticularly Cruise and Trident missiles. affiliating to CND, active support for the campaign against the missiles, and backing the boycott of all handling, transporting, building and servicing of US sponsored missile bases. every effort to build the national CND demonstration called by National Council of CND for October.' What to do after the conference labour movement body, from local to district, regional and national level mass leafleting among their members to explain the arguments against the missiles to organise local activities and to mobilise for the October demo • Commit the national unions and Labour Party conference to this policy and to support for the October demo 'This body (branch, conference, etc) commits This means 'We therefore give full support and will make • Get the conference appeal passed by every • Commit the unions and Labour parties to moved by Socialist Challenge supporter Britan Heron. Unanimous conference vote for the resolution for action Socialist Challenge Disruption at the conference Unfortunately the conference partially disrupted in the afterfew TOOT dozen delegates to walk The main responsibility for lies silualiuli squarely with the CND leadership.
Throughout the build-up the conference Socialist Challenge supporters gued for resolutions to be laken al the conference they were defeated on the organising commitLCCI Even when the Socialist Workers Parhad irresponsibly threatened to disrupt conference to insist taken, the CND leaders rejected proposal Socialist Challenge suporters that the matter be put to the vote at the beginning of the conference minimise disruption The result was sim. mering discontent throughout the ference over the lack of democracy. the overturning of the organising committee's posi tion the TOOT conference and necessary disruption of the conference proceedings.
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National march and rally against unemployment
We need another labour conference