untrue', he said.
A month earlier, the Daily Express had reported the decision of a number or Labour Mrs and party workers to write to Callagnan reline nim or their tears ora spy at HQ'. *They want to keep DarLy secrets ron trotskyite Andy, the right-wing Express announeCe All this was just a curtain raiser to last weeks decision by NULO the Labour agents' union, to black critically announced their sorrow mar an maivaua snoura suriera a result of their trade union dispute with the Labour Party NEC. decision to appoint Bevan, they already chances of promotion!
But as the YS member on the NEC, Nick Bradley, pointed out, the Labour Party is not in business to give careers or cosy jobs to people in is ranks. Too many carcerists like George Brown, Richard Marsh and Ray Gunter had made careers and fortunes out of being members of the party, he aodcc.
SHAM Moreover, NULO did not protest about the original advertising of the job youin ouncer Labour Weekly, пог short-listing. In the last years, eight out of 16 agent apCOnC members of NULO without a single protest!
NULO's claim that this is a trade union dispute is clearly a sham. This is why its appeal to other unions at Transport House to black Bevan was turned down. Commented one of the members One woranch invo ving staff at Transport House (which Deval nas now Joined): would they have said the same thing if he Was black POSITION NULO's position was based on political hostility to Andy Bevan.
This view was abundantly confirmed at last week's special meeting to discuss the state of the Labour Party s linances, attended by leaders of more than 30 unions. Ine union leaders, who nave been NEW YEAR security arrangements at Labour Party headquarters have hit the news. Announcing his decision to lock the directory department, where Transport House records and addresses are kept, Labour's General Secretary Ron Hayward denied that the decision was prompted by the recent appointment of Andy Bevan. 'It is totally thred want to cuminate ine tar lent as the only peopic preparca today to organise a fight against their anti-working class policies. red-scare zuct press nave been desiened to create an atmosphere in which the tar lett is isolated and from acting as an organising centre against the Social Contract. This is clearly why there was such a response by much of the press to Benn's open support for Bevan's appointment.
The aim is to drive a wedge between supporters of Benn and the far left. So people like David Wait in the Financial Times concede that of course there's a place for Marxists in the Labour Party' tirades of the but argue that there's a world of difference between saying that and supporting the prevented party.
This is why Bevan's commit "sensitive" ment to 'be good", as the Guardian put it. can only serve to weaken ne hand of the left in the labour mOvemCHL have promised Hayward and Underhill not to attend meetines of Labour Party.
existence of ororganise within the party. VICTORY Bevan is alleged real victory.
cuts -*any sectional group within the That includes the Militant group, the Tribune group and even the Social Democratic This is no way to fight the witchhunt. The only answer to the right wing is to defend the right to The appointment of Bevan was a three of