Healey, Thatcher and NATO do badly at Transport Union conference

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DELEGATES at the Transport Union's conference last week will have made a number of enemif Cert: ine Tories have litti. io be pleased about, though no doubt incy right-wing will be grateful that the platform manoeuvres prevented the Conceite on Fact that delegate after delegate spoke up for Tony BeNE explains If you would like to be put in touch with Socialist Challenge supporters in your area or would like more information fill in the form below Name...

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Union/CLP (if any).. sweated brows on the top Use, over 300 delegates the Benn mee: despite the dosence • canaldaic and the fact unofficial meetings are a rarity at the TGWU's two-yearly conferences. Denis Healey (in person) attracted about 40 to his meeting.

All the predictions were that the delegates would have raumbs ven resolute Tony Benn. fectively denied by the chairperson, CONCENCe Stan Pemberton He refused to allow reference back of the standing orders decision could be VOlt taken, and when this was challenged chalett, or BY Alan Cowley, Pemberton won the Issue on a confidence vote.

The bitterest blows to those in the leadership of the Labour Party and the TUC who want to stitchHealey-type up a gramme for the next abour government came early on in the conference. Role On the very day that the TGWU delegates gave a resounding No to any incomes policy, the Labour Party Liaison Committee which played such inspiring role during the premiership Wilson Callaghan entited Econ document 'Economic Issues lacing tae nexi Labour government'.

Lurking among the desultory proposals is 'national economic assessment of the prospects for the growth of the economy to embrace such issues as the share of the national income going to profit, to resolution confirming its long-standing commitment to unilateral nuclear The motion called for a campaign the labour Cruise and Trident, and to close all nuclear and around Britain. There FaSO mediate reduction in conventional arms spending the delegates decided.

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