and the outlines of the campaign are clear.
Labour looks set to fight the climate established at Bishor The emphasis wil JLUILIUIU oe on une uly vi luc vally, alternalive economic strategy, and a clear radical socialist remedy aish people's problems David Wiseman. a local councillor is the Labour can didate despite his previous 'left' record in the party is fitting in well.
SUTeSSES that he
mainstream memoel Labour Party wno boln sup Benn and the Tribune Tunis role de is recelvine the full backing of the Labour Scotland and the rest of Brilain.
Special To underline this, workers' union ASTMS. and ihe 1lauc for LaDOUI VICIULY Present were Alex Kitson. deputy secretary Ine Socialist Challenge general workers and Gavin They took the opportunity to declare that 'the error of inwallaie Over Even on purelv electoralist calculations their strategy of fighting to hold onto the middle ground is weak. A look at General lasi resuuls saows us 1979 Glasgow Hillhead electorate 39,793 conservauve Laboul Liberal scottish Nanonal rarty feature of this byelection le The predictable that the Tory vote wil COlLake vUlC Labour's last election performance.
If this is so, then the key to a Labour posibe campairy which will incrcasc SUDOUlI working class people in the area. 11 February 1982 page 6 Fighting the SDP for th middle ground was attemptes Jenkins (who is the SDP can didate once again) atmosI enormous SDP at their own game gives their porcies credibinty in Ine eyes or lie voters.
the present time in Scotland Majo! sections of the country's industrial base are being Inrealenta Redundancies or complete 10,366 (34.4%) 4,349 (14.4%) 3,050 (10.1%)
shutdowns have Briesh acclareu at LIEC snellel vergordon, the Leyland tractors Bathgate. Plessey Bathgate and the Lovable Bra However. workers alinese plants are fighting back Aluminium Plesseys and Lovable Bra now occupied by the workers Workers balneae are on sinke.
This by-election should be used bv the Labour Party to nut torware une Dans to en sure the success these occupations and to build up supfor a mass fight against Al the mon offerine i9 a , the best promise to are ret worst they will be ssen Al worst tney by the working class electors as irrelevant or as part of the problem they face It is this weakness which the Scottish Nationa looks set to accept nave taken une ume since une election to of occupying workers. will come out clearly tor ar nuclear weapon they already claim that they are the only party in this elec tion which is 100 per cent for NATO unilateral nuclear olsarmament Ladour Parry com committed to supporting workers in Dullille Il tail radical social measures io uca. with unemployment and ine decline in social services and novement to remove the Tor
-Witch-hunt against Laurence Scott continues - John Boyd confronting... By Pete Clifford made a fresh attack strikers. 2,600 branches, he strikers back in July.
Boyd concludes that given the executive council's consistent support, at all times when menDers decide to fight redundancies, trust that branches will not be misled into supporting now an irresponsible campaign'.
He even has the cheek to claim that Scott's strikers are attacking the union's democratic structures, wnen lt was Boyd himself who broke four of ENGINEERING union leader John Boyd has Laurence Scott In a three page letter to the union's covers up executive's withdrawal of backing from the the union's rules in withdrawing official support and refusing to cooperate with the union's own appeals procedure. Since July, the executive council have organised campaign inside and outside the union against the strikers, culminating in misleading the union's national committee into withdrawing support In contrast, the determination the Scott's strikers to stay out on strike has won the support ot rank and file engineer: across the country. year a protest resolution to the executive, backing the strikers, , won the endorsement of over a thousand of une unons oralichcs Now the same type of support is building up for the strikers latest campaign. Branch resolutions Irom all over tne country are starting to arrive at the union's national HO call ing for ballot for reof the executive council.
The Scott's strikers are going to away because of Boyd's attacks The same day Boyd wrote to the branches they drafted out their reply. Their message was: fight goes on.
Patrick Sikorski adds: The experiences Scot fish! or jobs san ine comine barnamen.
against Tebbit's anti-union bill This is just one of the steps 10 be want usu result of nOuse nursoo» wach was arender by among others Tony Benn, Ernie Dennis ner, wine unic ne MPs Doncaster ana vor wick in wrose constiluencies inere are orne! factories in the Mining Supand 8r Tony Benn proposed to Issue a statement of s the truce orne movemen figures. also announced bill calling the Scotts nine suoodes imo ine va tional Coal Board.
Both measures are aimed at highlighting the continuin fight the Scotts the workers in Manchester and t expose ine asser-siripping rou Mining Supplies boss Arthur Snipe • who has made his backs of th miners ana : nationalise 188602 convenor Denis burry ola m meeting, onou government they would have Scott expected Their jots and trous nationalsation and and WUrN Denis Barry
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THE date for the Glasgow Hillhead by-election has yet to be set. However, so important is this election that campaigning is already underway
sufficiently Tory voters switch to the SDP
Michael Meacher