A number of errors unfortunately crept into the interview with Philip Sutcliffe printed on page 3 of last week's issue: 1. Philip Sutcliffe is a member of the branch committee, and not a union official as stated. 2. The men in the three East Kent pits are still working five days, not three days as stated; production has fallen to approximately 8,000 tons, not 6-7,000 as stated. 3. The second and third paragraphs, which reported that the pit had been flooded on Tuesday, 4 December, were wrong and were not part of the original We apologise for any inconvenience which mav have in Sheffield and the convenors conference in Manchester are seen by the CP as means of giving a rank-and-file stamp to the overtime ban. Among those in Sheffield who pushed most vigorously of the AUEW, and Cyril Morton, convenor of Shardlows (who moved the resolution). Both are members of the CP and both voted for the resolution at the Engineering Voice conference calline upon all militants to fight tor a national engineering strike. There will be many CP members at the conference in Manchester who also voted for that resolution. If CP militants are serious about mobilising the full industrial strength of the movement then they should stop flip-flopping and fight for this perspective-even if it means fighting Scanlon.
Red WeeklyRed Weekly No. 31, 14 December 1973
CORRECTION
The scan: rw-no31-dec-14-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 3-3 of 4; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.