sudden showdown between John Silkin, Lord Bruce and the editor of Tribune newspaper seems to have blown up in olkins tace A week earlier Bruce and Silkin announced that they had secured ргоху Tribune's VOLC. founder shareholders with which they going to remove Chris Mullin from the editorship of Tribune.
Under Mullin's direc
tion the paper has been sharply critical of Lading Michaer oot, and Labour leadership has firmly opposed th witch-hunt in the Labou Party.
Now, it seems, Silkin wants to have a private witch-hunt of his own. But he didn't have it all his own way. On Thursday 9 December the shareholders met and Silkin moved the removal Mullin and George Hopkins from the Tribune Board of Directors and their replacement himself and Bruce.
His plan was to make a clean sweep of the board of directors, which has eight members, by cutting it to five members, removing two further Journalists, and relying on the Front page cartoon in last week's Tribune. support of Brian Murphy, former TUC Press officer, to secure a majority to remove Mullin from the editor's post.
Unfortunately he made some sad miscalculations: apparently he forgot that Jack Boddy, a director, prominent Transport workers member - and Tribune a board of