Scottish Labour CND is founded | IMGpapers 1980

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FIFTY DELEGATES representing sixteen local parties met in Glasgow 22 January tor the founding meeting of Scottish Labour CND.

Opening the conference. Gavin Strang MP sccretary or rarnamentary Labour CND stressed that our battle to have the party out nuclear unilateralist policy government was not yet won.

was essential for CND to maintain its mass campaign up to and after the election. It had to pay ing in the unions if we were to hold the line there where leaderships had often been forced against their will to vote our position.

We had to go on battling to get parliamentary representatives backing and Observers CLPs and eight for CND. The present 120 members ot Pariamentary Labour CND was still less than half of Labour MPs. The meeting broke to hear M Foot address a Scottish Labour Party rally Foot said the LP could claim like no other party to have led the OCaLC and specifically the movement against cruise and trident But he said nothing that committed future Labour government to any immediate steps of disarLabour CND then reassembled even more determined to cut out the CND dissembling. Walter Wolfgang brought LUCCLHES as vice-chair of Labour CND and resolutions were passed on tasks for the coming year.

These included building for the August rU/LP LP day of action, and for all CND's mass actions, day school, regular bulletin directed at CND and party activist: This would to CND why its aims would only be achieved by unilateralist Labour government. Conference ended by electing a committee including members from S Ayrshire, Paisley, Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth and Arbroath. To be put on our mailing list send quid to T. Southall Scottish Labour CND, 420 Sauchiehall St G2.