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Break right wing control in AUEW

Socialist Challenge No. 238, 17 March 1982 · p. 5 of the scan · 303 words

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GAVIN LAIRD, the right wing general secretary of the AUEW, explains in his the difficulty of stature' as John Boyd. ANDY LILLEY, AUEW shop steward, explains why he should never be allowed the chance.

between Broad Lefi candidates and right wingers.

und Ken Brett, and a national organiser is heing elected with Harry Cutts of the Broad Left, opposing able to break the right union's executive committee.

privacy with impunity. fill an encyclopedia.

Edwardes even meeting him in his private flat.

tively sabotaging the Laurence Scott strike. for a merger with the notorious Frank Chapple's electrical union, the EEPTU.

The AUEW block vote has has cultivated right wing MPs joined the SDP.

Boyd has had editorial control of the ALEI which he has used almost as his personal weapo?

difficulties for advance in the AUEW fidence in the present leadership.

candidate for election address that he is acutely conscious of emulating men of such TWO key posts will be decided in the ALEW in ru. offe general secretary will be between Gavin Laird If Brett and Cutts are elected, the rank and file will be wing's total monopoly in the With this monopoly they have been able — in complete to prepare right-wing campaigns and sellouts The anti-working class record of the executive would They have wined and dined Michael They have blocked the fight against redundancies, acThey have been undermining democracy and angling.

been used oppose democratic reforms in the Labour Party, and the executive - half of whom have now The Broad Left candidates have their limitations. But breakine ine rignes monopor on me cu. uno repumn leading officials with candidates who have supporied the who have backed the democracy struggle in the Labour Party, would creare mali is a chance to register a massive vote of no con-

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