Failure
And despite the failure of the plant leadership at Ryton to give a lead, many workers there were voicing support for an immediate sit-in last Friday. They know the choice facing them is to fight for The right wing must be losing its grip. Last week members of the Electricians and Plumbers Union actually started voting for six new executive council positions out of a total of fourteen.
This was too much for the press barons. Fresh from their suceess in getting their candidates elected in the ers in the editorial departments of the Sun, Mirror and Express got to work. Their aim: to stop supporters of the rank and file electricians' paper Flashilight from winning the elections and ending the EEPTU's support for the Wilson Government's policies.
Rigging
Pay Claim normany AUEW elections, the well-known plumbthe EEPTU has been ist Party members from office - although federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions - in pursuit of a national When they were outvoted the EEPTU bureaucrats simply announced tat they would sauce mermemoers to work Frank Chapple emerged as a force inside the union through a Broad Left-type campaign around the rank and file paper Flashlight. It is this paper and the militants who support it who have put up an alternative slate in the current elections, thus caus ing the present rumpus in the press.