steward. TED HESLIN: A Transport and General Workers Union shop former national supporter Workers when he proposed a Defend Ted Heslin *The Juls.
Heslin affair is now left would 1 NIS right of within the party, MEETING on Wednesday of last week in London, the Labour Party's national executive turned aside the hysterical demands of rightwing Labour MPs and Fleet Street to launch a major witch-hunt against Labour left wingers.
The NEC decided not to publish the report on "Trotskyist infiltration' prepared in 1977 b agent Lord Underhill. In : second decision, it voted by 14 vetes to 8 not to endorse the expulsion of Ted Heslin, former executive member of Oxford City CLP and a of Socialist Press, paper puls soas neferred back to the party s Socialist Instead Heslin's organisation committee for re-examinațion.
Heslin, a Transport and General Workers Union shop steward, was expelled a year ago motion on his general management committee calling for the removal of the right-wing party leaders. Instead his own party decided to remove him.
Last week's NEC meeting was picketed by 15 supporters from Ted's union branch and A leatlet handed out by fh Campaign argued use the Underhill Report to hound the Militant grouping. But the sharpest point is that where expelled. defended. His expulsion must be rejected.' The decision to refer the expulsion to the organisation committee does not mean that the But both on this CUYCL issue and the ruling class 'Trotskyists' in the Labour Party, the Labour be best advised to on affiliation all working organisations to the Labour Party, and the right of all such groups to organise openly because of them and the fact that what point-scoring there place in a friendly and non-sectarian manner, there was a willingness on the part ot most of those involved t listen and other's arguments.
Stuart Holland, in reply to far left critics of his alternative economic • strategy, spelt out thạt for him thi involve the books of the multinationals, and the right of the shop floor to hire and fire