unions and the Labour Party who stand in the way of working class struggle. It will strengthen the hand of the militants in the task of organising that struggle. This is the importance of voting for Bob Wright as president.
It would be foolish to think that simply electing Bob Wright as President would solve the problem of the leadership of the AUEW. The truth is that even if he had a majority on the executive council his policies are not sufficient to present SODOFF the necessary the socialist movement the challenge of a years.
So class. for members. ENGINEERS in Bury have called on the TUC to organise a general strike against Tories. The AUEW Committee passed the resolution aimed 'if at bringing down Government'.
A Bury district official said the strike call was inspired by lne sirikes in Brett, the present Assistant General Secretary of the AUEW, standing for re-election, took tCHC when he Manchester's Houldsworth Hall. workers have shown what power we've got if we're prepared to use it,' he declared.
And Bob Wright himself was clear as to the aim of such action. •We've got to generate a capable defeating government before its term of office ends. But instead of doing this', Wright went on, TUC have offered to talk to the Tories. They shouldn't be talking to the Tories, they should be rallying the rank and file.' socialist alternative to capitalism' which he calls for in his election address.
He deplores unemployment. Yet he says nothing in his election address about the fact that last year's settlement tied the hands of the union for four years on the question of the shorter working week.
Neither should it be forgotten that Duffy is not the first president of the AUEW who has tried to ditch the demand for a shorter working week. Hugh Scanlon did it successfully for over ten La 'left' leadership Scanlon/Wright variety is no guarantee that there will be a genuine struggle to defend the interests of the working The election of Bob Wright as President of the AUEW will hopefully open up at opportunity for the left in the union to debate the policies needed to fight the Tory government. It will create the best conditions for starting the fight an AUEW which fights for its District JOHN SMILIE, of Snow's in Sheffield, who is standing for the National Organiser's position in the current characterised the present leadership as 'supine and spineless'. He denounced Duffy's offer of conciliation with the Tories and their anti-union legislation.
"Duffy has said he against people breaking the law. He has shown that he is ignorant of class history. He wouldn't be where he was if workers hadn't broken the law. The were born out of struggle and illegality', Smilie reminded his members.
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