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Not all victories at T&G conference

Socialist Challenge No. 6, 14 July 1977 · p. 5 of the scan · 371 words

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democras sectors" was which bad bargaining ISLE OF MAN: The vote for a retur to free collective mounting a fight to regain lost living standards.

But far from this vote against wage restraint reflecting a more general rejection of Jones' Sylvia Greenwood, a delegate who had supported Phase 1 ar the 1975 Biennal Delegate Confersummed up the mood The prool of the pudding is in the cating. T'vecaten twa-thirts of the pudding, nod it's given me food poisoning.

Two years of the Social Conrestraint in particular, has lelt working class empeycomference rejected Jones' pleas i was saying "No mon On other issues became clear that the absence of any clear organised opposition to meant that they were able to go by nocballenged debare after debate mages debate was A composite motion Government to move abead with carried overwhelenThe offered to the There is nothing in Bullock Than cannot be achleved chrough But even more signsficant was Party objectives' the following SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 14 July 1977 p5 class-collaborationist day. The executive "'prioriries" wbich was intended toallow Jones to go right on having discussions with the Goserament over the Social ConIn opposition called for the T&G to 'influence the Labour Governmentro change the motion nad wouted our thal when canvassing for Labou *people who bave heen woring • are now thai they've lad enough', Opposing the resolution for the exccutive, Moss Evans argued tbat he conference should be positiv bout the recard of the Labou Governanent:

*When you knock at doors to get Labour back in office, let's have more on the credit side and less pa the debir side'!

Again the executive carried the conferenoe overwhelminglyNot for nothing did Jack Jones got a standing ovation al 000LET EMILE As I heard one delegate say ir the coffee har: What ever you sa nhaut Jack it wai him who buill the hop m movement. and wasn't for him w You could say that.

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bargaining from 1 August is the first major defest suffered by Jack Jones in his leadership of the union and the first step in

policies as a whole, it wasrather morea matter of once hitten, hy RICH PALSER

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