Projects The conference aimed to lay the basis for black caucuses wilala te lanons and to provide ideas and as uncle v so suck as black history; the Charter for Black Workers; black women workers. tne Nationality Act and positive action.
In terms of attendance and firm projects the conference can only be BETWEEN 150-200 people, mainly black, picketed the Director of Public September in protest over the arrest and detention of the 12 Bradford Asian youths on charges of excellent bulletin has been produced with interviews of the relatives.
dants c/o Bradford 12 Support Committee, London c/o High St, Southall.
Southall, Luton and Bradford.
Hear the case for the Bradford 12 21 September — West Green Community Centre at 7.30 National picket from London Women in a powerful slaltment on behalf of black women, Trudi de Haney, a research officer for the General and Municipal Workers Unlon in Nottingham declared that Dack Wolen as an appendage in the fight for racial and sexual equality. 'We can't allow this', she said, 'we won't wait until black men have won equality. 'We have passed the stage of brothers giving us a hand up. 'We will conquer these deliberately contrived divisions between men and women, black and white.
Prosecutions A series of public meetings are planned and an Send donations for the bulletin and write to the defenSupport groups are also organised in Leeds, Leicester, 1 October - Bradford City Court, coaches leaving Apathy In addition she pointed to the increasing number paign in Leyland Lowicy Workers Rights Commitlee to stop ine searching or black workers.
"The fight black women workers in Grunapathy that's the problem.
can't allow our frustration with the trade LANDON SPORT CT NUPE positive action pack available for £3 unions and their lumbering progress to side track No issue is more central than that of equality.
'We have to put the equality fight into mass politics f mainstream working Bernie Grant, a London division officer for the National Union of Public Employees spoke of the the old white trade union terms like 'blacking' and 'black leg'.
He concentrated on aspects of which had to be changed DROP TAC Bradford 12 picket outside the Home Office in London A Pack for Negotiators such word-of-mouth recruiting and internal advertising which power to certain groups to eep the workforce white He a SO mentioned the plans of NUPE positive action ena discrimination. Liberals In an aside he declared himself the National Front - 'the vouth Will LaKC care of them on the streets'.
Bill Morris of the transport workers union NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (LONDON DIVISION)
who is also on the TUC equal rights committee argued that was necessary to fight with the trade union movement not against it to take political as well as industrial action, for example putting forward black candidates for MPs.
He declared himself 'fed up with organisations in the Jack the Ripper in charge of a blood bank.
Questions were raised about how the unions should relate to the unemployed; the situation of the black disabled; the quota system to ensure rolek represent Common role the Market creating unemployment; the nature of the alliances with white workers; language difficulties; deportation of Filipino domestics, etc. Argued But the three positions how should organise remained unresolved. The organisers argued that a separate black organisa. tion necessary, to progress the fight within the white labour movement; a Photo: MORNING STAR by a spokesperson from Saint James Avenue, Tickets f3 in advance, £3.50 at door the Brixton Defence Campaign was that an all-black oreansalvi necessary, capable of uniting all black people in their defence; and a third IIOI Workers Party members that unity with whites isolation to back onic isolation' only formations In summary, Trudi de Haney wholeheartedly supported the right black workers to organise separalely, but adaco cannot go around the trade union movement.
Charges Bernie Grant demonstrated how the about jobs and wages: my branch Hammersmith - we gave f300 to a woman whose son had been run over by a police car during the recent riots that's what being in a about...
That's £300 collected from low paid workers.
The conference ended with a unanimous vote in favour of a motion from the Brixton Defence Cam charges against those ar rested in the youth upris. ing earlier this year and specifically the Bradford Public meeting speaker U Whiteman Grenadan Minister of Foreign Affairs Sunday 20 September 7.30pm at Saint James Hall West Ealing Sponsored by the New Jewel Movement support group (UK)
BENEFIT Saturday 19 September 7.30pm Islington Town Hall, Upper St, London N1 Bands include Split Rivitt, Tropicana and the Enchanters Owen Carron MP and SWAPO invited to speak iron sit 188 North Gower St, London NW I 2\B Te 01-388 5539 Socialist Challenge 17 September 1961 Page
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