JOURNALISTS right of reply in the Telegraph and to consider bringing disciplinary action acams blake blaker, wie new paper s industrial correspondent, under the union s code or conduct. unis instrucEs journalists to resist censorship and disThe Code has long remained a dor mant aspect of NUJ policy, and the newtouno emmusiasm ror us impiementador necessitares boin colective tentorcement on the part of chapels and branches, and a campaign for the right of reply to be extended to all those slandered by the There were other gains by the left.
Amalgamation would greatly strengthen civil servants" bargaining power, preventing the loss of militants from the union through promotion, and most importantis reaching out to the higher paid members of the union to win them to the side of the lower paid in a common struggle. The IS refuses to take a Marxist approach to the problem of the middle grade salaried workers, and instead substitutes emotive talk oi a bosses union"
Hostility Similarly, the hostility of the IS to wards the policy of a sliding scale of wages and the counterposition of flat rate increases shows a lack of concern with the fact that inflation is driving the middle classes to desperation through wholesale reductions in their living Standares.
The conference, with the support of the executive, called for support for the 26 May Day of Action on jobs, urging chapels to examine how they could best support the demonstrations, In London the union's Book Branch has called a meeting Bride Institute, Bride Lane, off Fleet Street) prior to the demonstration, and it is expected that the Magazine Branch will endorse this initiative But this victory was matched by substantial defeats over wages and new tech nology. In both cases the left's resolutions were put forward by supporters of Journalists Charter and reflected the total inadequacy of pure rank-and-filism PROTECT On wages the resolution merely called for a return to tree couective bargaming without raising the need to protect workers living standards against tne effects of inflation through a sliding scale of wages. On new technology the conference was simply urged to freeze its introduction for a year pending more necoratons. win nota munE or tre necessity to open the employers books and impose workers control over any technological innovations via work-sharing with no loss of pay.
The conference took a clear stand on women's rights however. A success Working Women's Charter Campaign and