Right-wing policies triumphed at the end of the five-day dectrician s biennial conference in Blackpool last week -despite the mearly unanimous resolution depioring Government interference in pay bargaining.
In a sporet session on Friday, a clections on the union's 140 fulltime oficials — suspended in 196l WRS ACECHEME beeting decided to continue the ban to prevent members of the Conmunist Party from holding This erosion of democracy pontinned with the decision to same from the exscutive, It Bow is general secretary Frank Chappe and plumbers* secretary Charlie Lavell YOC MARCE DE DE DI the very lew secretaries to hold voting power.
The union leadership panned WEANED for political reasoos at least Ewo checonference. Wyn Bevan, a left 30 рет The electricians* to 13 members, and niners' 12-mooth each have an executive union general defending diferentials, litele danger of the reactor programite.
REWARD by stew safery measures pay resolution reflecled shop-floor calls forrises ofaround Spent, bur the safety net of the 12-moute rule was unfuried claim will be prepared by a apocial conference Landon of power-station shop stewards io Lacember — the timie wileu due the rule ls adbered to.
But by diverting the apposition in the union up the road ol numbers].
Chapple and the right-wing ca bal tbat nuns the EETPU know that there is rank-andse soulas out ou acir conte Spurred on by che exocutive, th ponterece lasoured a go-ahead ro une proposcu mucicar wasie reprocessing plant at Windscale well as an expansion of the whole nuciear and fase-brooder A mild resolution was dumped which called for a moratorium on nuclear development until new are developod.
Delegates also roandly defeated aresolution calling foe withdrawal trom the FFC in favour of a pro Perhaps Chapple, Tam Break Co la the FETPU nor enlaihto condena the working class to low wages in a capitalist Europe, butifail else rails they can always hope for a nuclear 'leak".