THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE called by Clay Cross constituency Labour Party for London on 8 June is meeting with a big response in the Former Clay Cross councillor David Skinner, involved in the organisation of the conference, told Red Weekly: "Every conceivable organisation has applied for crededentials. We are expecting a full house, and have issued something like 300 credentials in the first week alone.
Organisations sending delegates include local Lahour Parties, trades councits, trade union branches, shop stewards committees, and tenants associations. Among the trade union bodies rapresonted will be the Preston und Chesterfield Trades Councils, and branches of the TGWU, NUPE, ASTMS, the NUM, and GMWU.
The conference will open with a discussion of the Clay Croas struggle and the fight to defend those victimCLAY O FLOOR Ised in that struggle. The afternoon session will take up the questions of solidarity with Chile, the fight to Former Clay Cross councillor David Skinner - expecting a full house POTAL RENT and RATES C free the trade unionists jailed in the Shrewsbury frame-up trials, and the fight of the Engineers against the National Industrial Relations Court This conference will be a major gathering of chose in the forefront of the struggle against the capitalist off ensive who are dissatisfied with Lab our's sell out policies on all the cruc ial questions facing the working class It will offer an important oppor tunity to work out a fighting programme for the labour moverent, and to rake the atops Decessary to carry that programme into action.
For these reasons Red Weekly will be providing regular coverage on the lead-up to the conference in the coming weeks, We will also be contributing to the debate on the way forward for the workers' move ment, in preparation for the discussions that will take place at the conference itself For further information or credentials contact: Charlie Bunting, 7 Lynam Close, Danesmoor, Clay Cross (tel. 0246 862756).
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