The rank-and-file, however, are beginning to fight back on this issue. On Sunday evening a meeting called by Kelly's branch, Charing Cross ASTMS, and supported by the International Socialists, the IMG and the Workers Socialist League, was attended by about 80 delegates and This meeting decided OsserVers to launch a campaign for the re-instatement of Kelly, and the attendance of many members from both branches and divisional councils shows the support that it can get in the union.
On the issue of the National Health Service, there was an attempt to refer back the NEC report because it contained only six lines on the curs i tne rs, win no menton of any action taken by ASTMS to implement last year's resolution. This was probably not unrelated to the fact that the executive had SMEAR As Phil Williams, the Barnsley delegate, asked the conference: "Do we, and you, deserve support from the same trade unonsis we as ourauss sear Cych day in our newspapers? What are you doing to ngat news eartors, copy-tasters sub-editors, editors, and plump proprietors to make sure vour copy 1s not turned-into a despicable insult on working people?"
The dynamic unleashed by the Barnsley action, which a big majority at the conference urged other branches and chapels to take up, clearly influenced other decisions on editorial content and control. A virtually unanimous resolution called for the sacking of Lord Shawcross, big business chairman of the Press
Ked weekly 13 May 1976