face of the outery we can expect.
Flect Street's outpouring: next month once the ballot i underway will be hacked up by such notable employers" journais as Truemid, Iris Economic League. All hands will be joined in these cincles to ensure that Terry Duffy fares well. And it won't only be the usual treds the beds" stories.
Support for Dufty will be centred on his approval Dalbour and orichael clasi solicies. and Edwardes — British Leyland's new hatchet man.
The only other alternative to Duffy in the second bailor i Bob Wright, the Broad Left candidate This whom militants in the AUEW must back. If Terry Duffy succeeds in the second bailot it would be a big blow for the working Dark days would be in sight TERRY Dutty for rank and file militants in the ution. And It would be seen as a further indication of support for wage restraint and the 10 per cent limit.-Duffy's victory would cacourage the Labour make further atracks on the living standards of the working class as a whole.
Bob Wright and the officials of the Совітитів dominated Broad Lelt grouping in the union have done linie to make SUIS elecied. In the first ballot the votes of all leit candidates Roy Fraser. Wilkins, lan Mortis, and Bob WY BETU galbed more votes than that of elections of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Is brewing among the gaffers" friends on JOHN GRAHAM argues that the March postal ballot in the union will rouse journalists, Woodrow Wyatt of the Sunday Mirror, from their usual disinterest In the labour movement to stir up a the right wing. Duffy's voter W wete greater than Wright's, but only by a narrow margin.
Howevet promising and the first ballot votes might seem, Duffy has many cards still te play. The right winlg has the whole weitht of official union policy and Government pollcy pulline in its direction. And il can always count on the ready 'help" from the bosses" pundits for in the press.
The repord of the Broad Left since the September Teaves much to be desired. No strategy woRisoCYcI as boz advanced to involve CIDR against the employers and the Covernment The November conference of the Broad Lef called for a campaign around the nationa! CYGNE leading to a conferenco convenors and shop stewards was counterweight to the inevitable schi-out the right wing would atlemp done Implement resolution Broad Lefi presidential candi Scanion - the last dare — cast the vote of the AUEW against the firefighters at the TUC without a murmur from the union. This spoke volumes of what Ikely to happen to the nationa claim which well above the 10 per cent limit if it was left in the hands of the right-wing officials who dominate the Confederation Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.
Dangerous lessons of this absence of struggle in the union have been drawn by sections of the Broad Left.
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responded by moving from a position of SEPi TaISL0 Party resist the right wing and the TADSUTLIONCTAITICELLO ACLIVEL co-operating with theit antigets MOTANE CAS DEALCES Derek convenor at Austin Longbridee and Edwardes" chat workers don't need boring like these BOB Wright Leyland, and has spent the las threc years policing ment's policies in the factory.
Jimme Arlie, Convenor trom poraE yards, was getting the order for the Polish shipbuilding contract accepted on the Clyde. This left workets ECLTOE at Swan Hunters isolated, TECY THLS the dancies struggle The bulk of the rank and in the Broad Left is not beading in this dire direction. Rather national is looking for a lead to built a fightback against wing. But it's just not possible claim, build such when it is lead by working élass characters who FOlC was was Prominent FILTC AUEW of the voted for FREDA Cruise, carve-up in manageCP general. ship instrumental and Tedun- Toad.
file Her it movement, such antiof alteroarive shop steward, Magnavox lo get round the Equal Pay Act. differentials makesenseand can tive year period, a capitulation consistently act counter to the interests of their own members and those of the union's left in If the result of the March election is uncertain today, it is because the Broad Left officials have steered a course which Takes its ranks down the wrons To put the rank and file on a fighting road a socialist alternative in the union is vital. ALLACS Rvoveu lc ua for policies which can mobilise members in opposition to che betrayals of the right and the inactivity of the Broad Left leaders can help create this kind SCANLON Greeled by pickete addressing women membors striking againat the grading system, used al
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