Determined work established a broad basea jobs committee in Bolton last week. Over fifty trade unionists, including three shop stewards deleganons, met m une AUEW hall for a surprisingly successful meeting surprising because it took place in a tense atmosphere generated by threats from fascist groups and a slander campaign conducted by the local Communist Party.
The fascist threat arose after lous organising meeting. In response thirty stewards provided workers defence for the meeting. Eight fascists were refused entry, including local National Party leader Bill Roberts, an AUEW convenor.
The Communist Party, although very weak locally, chose to denounce une meeting enrougn tne local paper and the trade union bureaucrats "grapevine'. They tried to smear the meeting as being a front for the International SocialThis was despite the ISIS LOUD fact that it had been sponsored by Hawker Siddeley (Lostock) and Thomas Ryder Machine Tools shop stewards committees, Bolton AUEW No 9 branch, and Bolton UCATT No 2 branch.
Rejected The IS members at the meeting plaved directly into the CP's hands by blatantly attempting to divert all energies into building the Right to Work' march from Manchester to London. Equally, the Communist jobs fight the meeting by putting forward a resolution simply to support the Labour Movement Assembly.
Both these positions were rejthe CP proposer withdrawing his own motion - in the face of a resolution proposed by the IMG members which set out serious priorities for the formation of a local action committee. The resolution called for solidarity campaigns with all struggles against unemployment: for building links the National Front disrupted a prev- between employed and unemployed workers; a campaign to recall the TUC to organise action on unemployment; to support local and national initiatives on unemployment, including the Labour Movement Assembly on 27 March, the Right to Work March and the demonstration against unemployment on 24 April called by the North West Region of the TUC.
Political The fight to establish action committees to fight on unemple yment is now a directly political task. The sectarianism of groupings which boost their own 'special" project and counterpose it to all others has to be fought tooth and nail by all those in the workers movement genumery committed to the fight for a class united front against the Wilson Government.
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bruary 1976 Six MPs have resigned from the parlia• BOYCOTT THE SELECT COMMITthese problems. paign in the working class to build the