Racist ousted in union | IMGpapers 1976

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BILL JARVIS, a well-known igure in the West Midlands bour movement, has finally been thrown out of office as President of Birmingham Trades Council. Jarvis gained national notoriety in 1976 after a spooch blaming immigrant workers for the deterioration in social and public services in the Wes Midlands. Despite a vote calling for his resignation b Birmingham Trades Council Jarvis refused to resign retract his statements. And Streas press campain ins Jarvis press campaign January, Jarvis narrowly held onto his seat as President.

But this year he was not so fortunate. He has now lost his as President to Maurice Ludmer, a member of the NUJ editor Searchlight, and a well-known anti-fascist and anti-racist Jarvis on a vote of 136 to 128 of the delegates voting.

The removal of a racist like an active militant in the fight against the raana a root ang racism should encourage more CHURED CHUYE SULL HELL: from office in the labour movement and so strencile the fight against racism.