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popular press mus full of sob stories officers ut Weymonth. Doree * The major appeal for the scobs the fire brigade headquarters an ame from one sounce Luyds Underwriters, who manage the Doang very mices are the scal truops in Harnstaple They une behave"
no stegs were taken to begin to organise a fight for the El35 ciaim.
A call for a national delegate conference to plan the action for the E135 claim, if rejected by the right-wing dominated executive bould have been called by the areas supporting the claim.
This conference could have been built into a really authoritatise nationa conference. thr ough the sort of campaign launched in the Yorkshire arca during the ballot on the national productivity deal speakers sent to pit-head miss mectines, special issues of the arca papers explaining the pur pose of the conference, and so Ол.
Instead the left tried to stop the allempis to split the unbon by using the courts. Kent area Nun mico to get the courts le halt the national ballot on an incentive scheme, and were re- the Imperial. It costs E11 * On 14 December young Amm HE CATTIED A spokesperson I for the Army This doesn't sound jected Yorkshire, Kent, and South Wales areas applied to the courts to stop the executive COLUMNE LEAST OUT ily schemes. This, too, was pre dictably rejected.
*l beiieve tbis judgement should firmly convince WtUL trade unionist chat it is useless hoping for juscioe in the courts of this land said Arthur Scar. gill after the event.
CHANCE DIMINISHES With each week that goes by and euch local incentive scheme thalisintroduced - the chance of a unified fight for the I135 claim diminishes. The left already Gormley and may well be exposed as being union splitters, but once baving splitthe union it will be too late to do anything aboutit. It is not too late to organise a nationa delegate conference row.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 5 January 1978