Andy Holland and Noel Hibbert, ASTMS members on IT'S ONLY too easy to write the election speeches of most of the candidates when it comes to what are euphemistically called Callaghan's supporters will wave the Concordat and say the labour leaders are anxious that union power should not be used "irresponsibly".
They will not find it so easy in The Anti-Concordat campaign got off to a good Fi nine trades council • executive members added their names to the growing list of sponsors Now Hull Trades Council has overwhelmingly carried a motion to recall the TUC over the issue. A mood of anger at meeting increased when Socialist Challenge supporters explained the full implications of the Concordat.
As one delegate put it: 1 don't mind the TUC government taking away my need to strike, but what I object to is their removing my right to strike.' The Socialist Unity election campaign in Hull is taking the message of the Anti-Concordat into the workplaces and onto he streets.
Supporters leafletted a mass meeting of civil servants held during the one-day strike on 2 April, and held street meetings to publicise a Kill the Concordat, Defend our unions' meeting on 12 April.
Speakers included John Suddaby, secretary of Camden NUPE general branch, Pauline Stanton, a trades council executive member and Socialist Unity candidate for Hull Central.
Every Labour candidate should be asked where she or he stands, and called on to back the demand for the recall of the and Labour Party Conference.
That's the way to remove the right-wing leaders who have overturned the policies these conferences have voted for, and adopt new policies for the fightback.
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