In order to convene localaction committees to fight incomes policy. Resolutions should be passed now in the AUEW opposing any repetition of last November's retreat when the NC reversed its previous position to support the £6 limit.
This also means that AUEW shop stewards committees and district committees should start mobilising their members now to lobby the May NC meeting. Where necessary, emergency shop stewards quarterlies should be tion and paper independent of the Broad Left machine will disappear -and be seen to disappear in the eyes of the engineering union Militants should nevertheless work with these papers and groups on the grounds that they do represent and organise layers of the In November last year, the AUEW National Committee reversed its line on in comes policy and voted to support the £6 limit. Up till now, no significant opp osition to this switch has emerged from within me union The Broad Left, embarrassed by Scanion's drift to the right, nas remain ed almost silent on the subject. Not one Broad Left manifesto for the leading positions in the current AUEW elections has openly come out in opposition to the f6 limit Now the tide has begun to turn. Last week s vour conterence reecree anys terical outburst from EC member Gavin Laird, attacking people who failed to support our socialist government and its socialist policies, and voted by a substantial majority to oppose the £6 limit and demand a recall TUC.
This should be the signal for AUEW members to launch a campaign aimed at the next meeting of the union's Na tional Committee in May to force the union leadership to break with the pol icies of wage restraint and reverse their decision to support the £6 limit.
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