that is the problem. to heel.
Open call Ine workers circumstances, The record of the District Com mittee on national blacking is not much better. Certainly the calls have gone out. but nowhere has there been an open call on the AUEW Executive to issue a national instruction to its members in the •motor industry to black. In these Ine plant leader ships have shifted the decision In the Leyland Rover Solihull La decision taken by the stewards to black Trico was reversed by the local Confederation of Sipof British Leyland, Longbridge, in Birmingham delayed a decision until the result of the Industrial Tribunal was known. Since that body ruled against the strikers, they have decided that any by the and General workers Union Regional Committee. It would be no surprise if that body, led by a well-known supporter of Jack Jones, As the Trico strike enters its final militants In unions, but particularly the T&GWU and AUEW, should step up support Resolutions calling for the National Executive of the AUEW to mount a campaign for a district strike in West London and for the leaders of both unions to misuuer men memoers te impose a complete black should bombard union headquarters. Such a campaign can make a return to EVERY THURSDAY, Clive Wilkinson sits drinking in Stechford Labour Club. He has been there every week since Roy Jenkins was appointed President-elect of the EEC. Jenkins is the MP for Birmingham, Stechford. Wilkinson is determined to be elected his successor.
Despite the Tribunite tag which he has recently proudly acquired, Wilkinson was well on the right when leader of Birmingham Council, backing the cuts up to the hilt. He is a member of the building workers' union UCATT, but he didn't let that stand in his way when he presided over the introduction of the lump into council building jobs. For some reason the local UCATT is totally opposed to his selection as Labour candidate for Stechford. But he is still, despite scattered opposition, the firm favourite.
Mr Wilkinson is evidently not going t be at the forefront of the fight against this Government's policies. The IMG in Birmingham has fought consistently for united action in all sections of the labour movement. The most successful example of this has been the Birmingham Committee Against the Cuts, in which the IMG has played a leading role. For the IMG the Stechford by-election offers the opportunity to extend the fight for united action in the electoral arena.
In the selection procedure for the Labour Party candidate. birminenan IM Is caling on Is members and supporters in affiliated trade unions to fight for a candidate committed to mass acuon arainst une baoour Government s anu-working cass porces. teoca Labour Party put forward such a candidate, the IMG would not be proposing an But time is short. Wilkinson seems to have got things sewn up. The IMG has proposed to all groupings and political organisatIon. Calaman Healey offensive that a meeting be held to discuss putting forward a class struggle candidate in the Stechford constituency.
They propose the meeting;
* Discuss the platform of the candidate, centring on the campaign against incomes policy, unemployment and the cuts, as well as me struggie aramst racismele demands of the Working Women's Charter and the withdrawal of troops from Ireland.
* Puts forward militants for nomination as candidate. The IMG is proposing Tariq Ali, but is prepared to withdraw aim in tavour ore peter cancicate * Starts to organise a campaign committee on a democratic basis consisting of rebresentauves mom cach orramsanor supporting the campaign.
*-The IMG is making it clear that all these proposals in no way cut across the right of all tendencies and organisations supporting - such a campai - 10 DU forward their own positions as well as the material produced by the campaign committee. The letter they have sent out concludes: *The Stechford by-election carrying fight against Labour's attacks. If the efforts of militants and organisations are not to b weakened by abstention or fragmentation wiin several tar lent cancidates, Inen 2 united reponse is vital.
Meanwhile the Labour candidate is carrying out his own campain. Every Thursday. In the bar.