The words of the General retary's report to ine iM this ycar "stand and ht" to project jobs and standards.
the SGM's SOUPE IS TO CONDE it the suspension of the IKC ECADILE CLAC ssive support it received i the sell out on flexible tering carlier in the year raised important estions in the union conning the need nocratise the structures 1 overturn right wing pay, lty and political quesns like nuclear disarmaRailworkers should pare now for mass acelecoms: one day HE TORIES have given notice that they intend ¡ sell off British Telecoms after the next elec n. The right wing dominated leadership of ie Post Office Engineering Union did nothing i prevent the first stage of the privatisation of ie industry with the formation of the private ompany Project Mercury utilising British Rail 105. However, in relation ireat, the POEU has called a one day protest rike for 20 October.
Socialist Challenge spoke with Phil Holt, ecretary of Liverpool icretary of the POEU Broad Left. muld you say something out the present stage in e campaign to prevent ivatisation of BT? emendously encouragThe Broad Leit ha ised the issue over umber of years that the lion should be camugning amongst the iblic and amongst its lyde bridge VE GROUP of workers ho lobbied the Labour chanting. laggie, Maggie aggie, Outl Out! Out!' are from the threatenClydebridge steel ant in Scotland. issel - Clearie. cretary of the Joint ade Union Committee the plant explained:
*On October 6th the JC Steel Committee has Iled a delegate meeting Sheffield to consider its sponse to job losses in CROUSLY including at Clydebridge plant ere the has sunced redundanWe'll be taking people to lobby that scialist Challenge ongoing struggle of the workers. The best way we can defend our industry is to build support in the union for the proposed day of solidarity action the healthworkers by calling on the NEC to give its support and campaigning the and depots for support and action.
Finally, whilst Brother Weighell has been busy ig. noring nis mandate at LP conference Eric Clarke (the candidate he should have voted for) has announced a Triple Alliance Parliament at the end of Alliance lobby this month. This is a TO the present internal POEU and own membership to alert them to the threat of Part of the first stages of any industrial action to bring home to the government that they Tace serious challenge as far as their plans are concerned. should be a one day protest strike.
verbal support something hard and tangi ble. This should be a collective issue. It's not about playing one group of steel workers against Scotland versus Wales or tremendous opportunity to build the Alliance of coal, steel and rail workers into a fighting formation and we should campaign to support these events throughout our industry.
strike called The Executive after a tremendous CHILDULLE of pressure from the branches around the country have now adopted that, and we welcome this as a serious step forward in the tight dustry.
Obviously over the next period the whole of will be alerted to the campaign of the POEU, and we would hope that every trade union, every branch, every district Labour Party, every local ward Labour Party will be taking POEU literature TO distribute the public, and to the general trade union movement, in defence of an important, NUR general secretary Sidney Weighell. Far from defending the nationalised industries he's heading up the witch-hunt. He was caught red-handed at Blackpool helping purge the miners from the Labour Party NEC - against • Lobby of SGM Wednesday 13 Octobe 9.00am onwards AUEW Offices, Holloway Circus, Birmingham.
• Socialist Challenge fringe meeting after profitable publiclyowned industry.
wing leadership of the union in opposition the denationalisation of our industry?
The right wing's record Has nor occu parueular the perly alert to the dangers of them not fully carrying out the campaign in the way demanded overwhelming majority o the activists in the bran che But as we have seen, if pressure is put they can be pushed along the road of making a stand at certain lanes. But at lobby. White Lion pub. opposite AUEW offices.
Triple Alliance: rally in Edinburgh, lobby of Parliament, 20 each stage we have to press them further.
How would you characterise the right wing leadership's strategy and what is the Broad Leftsaying about that and what is the Broad Left doing? The basic strategy of the right wing is to hope that the return of Government will reverse measures that the Tories have put in train, or at least that's what they publicly. I personally believe that the strategy which they ошис Із по being carried out with th sam: thu asm that it should be For ISTENCC members should be drawn into discussions about what they feel a Labour Government should do telecommunications industry when it power. then at national con ICTERCES plans for the renationalisation of the industry without compensa tion after that full membership consultation Stan Orme
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