Only days before the official announcement of the clection date, Brightside Constituency Labour Party in Sheffield came to the end of the long battle to oust their MP, Eddie Griffiths.
Griltiths had been one of the staunchest right-wingers in the Parliamentary Labour Party. He had attacked the miners" strike earlier this year, he was an out-and out supporter of wage restraint, and on the important issue of the steel industry he seemed more concerned with the employers interests than either saving workers jobs or extending nationalisation into the heavy engineering firms in the heart of his constituency.
The local Party has now replaced him with Joan Maynard of the farmworkers union, a leftwing member of the Labour Party National Executive.
CORRUPTION Earlier this year Eddie Milne. Labour MP for Blyth was also ousted by his party. Milne had not got on with his agent and the Refectory workers at Birmingham local Party, we were told, But the real reasons were quite different. His interest in the affairs of the region had brought him up against the conruption tual was rile in the North-East Labour Party.
From then on, Milne waged a campaign on inner-party democracy and consistently raised the califor a Labour Party inquiry into the corruption charges, Milne stood as an independent Labour candidate i lane rebruary cecuon and won.
Now both Maynard and Milne are contesting seats for this clection Maynard, who was the most energetie supporter on the National Executive for Milne's call for a Labour Party inquiry into the North-Fast, stands as an official Labour candidate; Milne remains an independent. But both will be standing as the result of a consistent campaign on the importance of democracy in the At a time when the Lahour Party is fighting the election on the central issue of the social contract, this is all the more important.
- Equal pay for equal work. 'If the 64 :70 Labour Government had had a real commitment to force that the Heath Goverament think we'd have a majority Labour Government today. I think the sible to and accountable to the orpanisations of the working class.
and it's not an casy one, would be ference if the Parliamentarians were not carrying out the programme;
Undoubtedly Joan Maynard would not accept the impucations tability of a Government to the working class does not involve just the Labour Party conference but above all the replacement of the parliamentary system by workers councis-but the whole way and the views she fought for in support of Eddie Milne, begin to pose real problems for all the Squatters began erecting barricades in explanation*-backs up the campaign by the 250 squatters and families to force the issue into the election- turn the election eviction into an eviction election.
social contact means toe orcanasanon by a Labour GLC of the biggest ever As Joan Maynard told Red Weeki workinz people, and it they'd legislated that commitment with the sane legislated for the ruling class, then E Labour Government must be respon I think one of the ways of doing this, for the NEC to recall the Party Conof all these positions-a real accounMaynard has come to be a candidate, Elgin Avenue, Paddington, last Saturday.
This event-part of a 'day of action and In Paddington the hoosing half of the of the IMG, "will clear a few illusions in the social contract. Our struggle is part of the struggle to smash it-no to wage restraint, hoesing for all' A hig victory Squatters have already thoroughly JMG Millet, Mike Cunningham, /left with armband), on the picker tine at St. Giles". OFFICIAL STRIKE TALES 5 LARASES VICTIMSATION GENERAL SALACIPAL NORYERS UNICH
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