Resolution carried by trades council.
*Support for the aims of the Working Women's Charter devised by the Lon don trades council, and calls upon the trades council to orgenise a Charter Sub-Committee with delegates from branches, shop stewards" committees, tenants and community associations, to form a Sheffield district conferance to launch a campaign on the demands of the Charter?
committed or ollierwise, to get to gether to look at the situation of wages and the cost of living. I'm not a member of the MG, for example, but it's uccessury to work together on huilding this conference What about the end of October when the threshold clauses run out?
We've got to look seriously at the situation we're going to face then Ithink that we've got to ensure that any threshold payments are incorporated in the rates in the normal way. Ohiously we rest aim for a substantial increase, and hope fully an extension of the threshold agreement.
think that this first conference we're hulding should be the beginnins of a proper campaign. I think that the labour movement, in this town in particular, should be looking ut the problems with a view to having a common policy for dealing with those problems. We should be aiming tor a united fight in the autumn when the thresbolds run out.
Fave a Young Workers' Committee which is run along the same lines as the joint shop stewards" cominittoo with represen tatives from the live unions on the shop foor. It was the young workers, too, who took up the inutiative on the hlacking of work that Barr and Strand were doing for the Chilean submarines On starting the strike over thresholds the Commities called a mass meeting and elected a strike committee one of whose tasks was to set up a piketing As Stewart Fergusen, chairman of ane Toboe workers Lammittee, told Red Weekly: Picketing will be very impor tant in the next two weeks. The manage ment are bringing in 27 new mactices. Ise can stop their delivery, it will be a big victory for us? Graham Galhraith, also on the Committes added None of the workers, including apprentices should he made to boar the brunt of Incressing prices.
NICK ADAMS