ENGINEERINC FOR SOCIAL AND OLOCICAL PROGRESS UNION their conference will ty.
GINGER KELLY, son of south unions. POST office engineers hold their national conference at the beginning of June. Like other unions affiliated to the Labour Party be dominated by Benn's candidacy for deputy leader of the Labour ParSocialist Challenge spoke to challenge vice chairpercentral external ed. branch of the POEU, and chair of the area council of post office My POEU branch has put a proposition to the conference which reads: 'This conference instructs the union's Labour the Labour Party conference.
We put the resolution because many come a conterence in recent vedrs felt that Tony Benn reflects the mood of the rank and tile trade union movemen and of our branch.
Tony Benn's candidacy may divide the party but we feel that this open to the leadership is the only way that the issues will be fairly discussOf course the present leaders of our union will be totally against the election of Benn, and firmly behind Healey. I say Ine bresent redders or me umor becausi if more Broad Left candidates are elected on to the nationa executive we mav well see a change.
I've attended union conference over the last ten years as a delegate or observer and very little time has been spent on political matters. reflected opinions at the time, but now things have changed.
The working class, and that includes the POEU membership, more political and obviously debates will become more intensitied as a result.
¡The media have made well criticism about democracy and the bloc vote That's because threatens the capitalist press and the type of society we live in.
I'm in favour of the election of the leader taking place completely outside the framework the Labour Party, and held within the ranks of the ordinary rank and file Labour Party members, members That adequately SLEUCLIOn delegates to are becoming ference.
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after the deadline parliamentary including the trade union conference agenda.
We have a very active Broad Left in London and we'll be pushing for other branches to support this proposition at conference. I believe it's fundamentally important that conference gives an in Not tha SOIL LO the union's the Labour Party *As we went to press we heard that the south central external branch proposition on Benn had been omitted from the conference propositions published by the The union leaders claim it arrived The branch secretary claims he delivered it by hand two days before the deadline, and so the branch are appealing against the omission from
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