Big growth for Broad Left | IMGpapers 1980

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claim in a desperate bid to head result 23-strong council.

the seven-strong TUC délegation.

S CHA Broad Left, the rank and file group in the POEU, the day before the opening of the union conference. This reflected the growing strength of the left in the union, and was a foretaste of what was to come on the floor of the conference itself.

The Broad Left had a well planned and efficiently run day-to-day campaign throughout the conference with at least one bulletin every day and a meeting every evening. A special edition of Spark, the Broad Left journal, sold extremely well.

In the executive elections the growth of the Broad Left showed strongly, with an increase from seven to nine supporters on the Dave Ward, a Socialist Challenge supporter and secretary of Horsham branch, was one of five Broad Left supporters elected to Read that opinion and it becomes obvictimisation; and it was Duffy who refus-

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I used to be an AUEW steward ..• untill discovered Duffy