were the order of the day at last Sunday's London conference of the Communist Partypromoted Trade Unionists to Combat Racism' conference towards practical opposition to Sixty delester merwheat reditiond, The amended resolution called for the initiatlistened to speeches round a draft resolution overflowing with pious geperalities. Platform speaker Bernard Dix, a 'left" NUPE official, set the tone by stressing the influence of 'bad ideas put over in the primary schools. Ina speech which did not mention the class role of immigrant workers against racist and police the Tory Government (which broke his own members strike carlier this year), he proposed resolutions to the TUC and campaigning within which could help police investigations of local government as the cures for racism!
Other platform speeches, from representatives of black workers and the European immigrants clause calling for ta non-racist immigration in London's International TGWU branch, dealt much more concretely with racism as if Mass picket at S.E.I.
(1ll15 Red Weekly 27 July 1973 Page 2 is used by employers to split industrial unity. These, plus the amendments accepted from IMG delegates, did something to push the ives of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bradford Trades Council in setting up committees against racism to be followed, and for such bodies to take action to defend black and attacks, It also applauded the decision of the CPSA not to collect passport information Immigrants under the 1971 Act. In addition, the CP organisers of the conference were foroed to retreat on the Party line by withdrawing a policy. ALEX WYVERN The seventy clerical workers on strike for a substantial reduction in the male/female differential at Salford Electrical Instruments voted by 68 votes to 2 to stay out al a mass meeting on Friday. Management at the two SEI factories in Eccles and Heywood, which are part of the GEC combine, had offered 95p to the lower paid and 78p to the higher paid An imporlant factor in this decision was the growing support which is now being received from outside the factory. Last week German trade unionists at the firm of Bayer's near Dusseldorf agreed to black supplies of Nibren wax, an important clement in the production process, Nearer bome, a lorry returned to the factory last Friday full of loading coils i used -in underwater cables), after trade unionists in the telecommunications division of GEC decided to black all components coming from SEE Such a campaign of blacking is doubly vital because of the attitude of the production workers at SEI. Led by their convenor, Harry Tonge, these workers have ignored AUEW instructions to black all goods and materials coming in, and are actively co-operating with management. The latter were obviously shaken when despite this the clerical workers voted to stay our by such a decisive margin.
JOE ROBERTS ment the cue to try their luck on their own sites, With the jailure to project a struggle against: the "lemp" this sumner, bunding workers everywhere are faced with a rery real problem -how to hold the line' and build up and strengthen organisation site by site. Events this week in London are an ominous suggestion that the employers may be about to take advantage of this in launching an area by area offensive.
NICK ADAMS arrival in the boardroom of people who are politically motivated to destroy the market economy'. As an alternative the CBi proposes plant councils for consultation only, with a senior management representative as chairman This is belleved to be the Government's prefer. ence, too.
But where even most British capitalists still fear to tread, the TUC hasrushed in. The recent report on Industrial Democracy produced by a TUC working party (including Jack Jones and Hugh Scanion) utterly reverses the traditional policy of the British labour mowement. It accepts che principle of two-tier boards and worker-directors, but adds a demand for 50 per cent workers representatives
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