What the women's conference decided

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AST JUNE'S Labour women's conference vas twice the size of the previous year's.

The Newcastle conerence voted to:

for the vithdrawal of the British leet the South Atlantic and to condemn he Labour leadership or at opposing tac war • vote for withdrawal rom NATO • support the struggle if workers in El Salvador nd Poland endorse lajority of the platform he Labour Party Young TETORESE outh unemployment.

The conference went in to vote for women to ave a more effective oice in the party.

In particular а moion was passed that five CULULEDES utomatically from the women's conference to the Labour Party con. ference, again against the how or unc piauorm majoribelegates also voted for direct election from the women's LUCICES the NEC of the Labour Party, and that the women's conference should be allowed clect own national committee.

representation of the pointed to the way in which WOLLICHS isation inside the unions could aid the struggle for a policy which reached out to a mass of women and at the same time increased the impact of women inside the labour movement as a whole.