By a special correspondent LAST week Len Murray and fellow (ouncil, Tom Jackson, Chapple and Alan Sapper, back in London after meeting in the United States with the TUC's American AFL-CIO.
No statement was issued giving details of the meeting and the TUC press office was unable to information of the outcome. And yet behind the meeting was a growing list charges the international wark and its collaboration the CIA and the British Foreign Office.
These charges could well mean that the international debate at the TUC conference could prove one of the most heated lor many Already the SW regional council of the TUC has allegations or General labour Frank Third World organisation, arrived a four day in Chile. the provide the charity published by them TUC's Were You Brother?
General Council Committee.
Secretary Alan years. asked document, passed a resolution calling on the TUC to answer various working CIA front organisations the ORIT, which helped to bring down the Allende government The regional council, like union branches in other parts of the country who have acted similarly, say they are still awaiting a satisfactory answer to the various allegations first made by War on Want in a booklet last year, Inside the TUC itself the various clarses mave been debateo botady lne Hargreaves prepare reply. The pages astonished members of the International Committee.
including that of extensive Foreign connections, Instead the reply read precis of the War on Want bookle!
Hargreaves' document
tabled but not endorsed.
General Secretary Len Murray now seems to have taken over dealing with the criticisms. He has replied to some branches that the booklet was a tissue of innuendo and smears.
unionists, however, those in the South West Regional Council, are refusing to accept this as a reply. "They will have to answer the specific charges,' one member of the regional council has declared.
meanwhile, made it fairly clear where they stand on the issue. At last month's Congress of the Miners' charges, federation unanimously backed denied. resolution investigate all sources of government funding going into labour circles and complain at source if need be whether AFL-CIO, TUC or any of the three world internationals.
And at the conference in Jersey referred to the various allegations and like said. the miners associated with certain parts of thi TUC's overseas work.
President Joe Gormley could only reply that members Committee Madrid, delegates an NUM "defeated it be the US booklet, week, including recent NUM delegate ULC shouldn't De Socialist Challenge busy union General Secretaries and didn't have the time to investigate everything that was going. on.
But interestingly Gormley was when he stood for the NUM's international delegation.
Co-author of the War on Want Don Thompsen, said this "The heart of the matter really quite a simple one. The TUC is spending about 5600,000 a year -£180,000 they receive annually from the Foreign Office -on overseas work.
is spent, and who benefits. So far the has tailed make this information available.' 26 July 1979 Pages
Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. THE fall of Somoza represents a setback for American imperialism. Its impact in Central America will be to 'destabilise' the existing regimes and provide a boost to all those struggling against the dictatorships in El Salvador, The success of the Sandinista operation will not automatically ensure a transition to socialism. The revolutionary process will, as Iran shows, be far
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