IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

ASTMS Conference THE WHITE-COLLAR union ASTMS holds its| ASTMS is the fastest growing

Socialist Challenge No. 45, 11 May 1978 · p. 5 of the scan · 406 words

The scan: sc-n45-may-11-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 3-5 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 5 of the scan

are true:

they keep our of the unior Replying to these accusations moderates Truemid has given financial RICH produce Daylight. It is money they say is being progressively repaid some time, however. moderates continue to lavish resources like they staffing a permanent office at postage the conference at The Old Slip Hotel.

Tracmid totally FINANCES But finances are not enough.

In the presidential election at conference, Losinskas polled only 66,420 annual conference this weekend. It seems set to adopt a far-reaching position on racist activity in the union, show just what sort of after admit that particularly to NEC wether or Repayment may take i the in the union.

IANC the LESUS:

STIG MULACET JODOLLELE I in Ireland.

union Jenkins' with independent Ken real Peter Colman, tbe Broad MAJOR Militant supporters of the Broad Left the supported Ken Lever. It seem more than ik cly that the Broad Left will win a majority on the not they really campaign for fighting policies That will be decided later in [be conference when delegaces will be voting on motions to oppose all incomes policy and executive for controls, supporting the 12-month ru Public Others call for affiliation to th ANL, for a campaign for Tree provision and support for tbe international Tribunal on Britain's Presence Britain, having erranded from a memberslid of 70,000 at its formation in 1968, to just under 400,000.

It also has a 'left' reputation maintain. Clive leadership, it has consistently opposed che poli cies of the Labour Government and the collaboration of the Yet the conference does not allow for real debate where the strategy of 'convincing the broad move. ment has got the union. Nor will there be much opportunity for socialists to put forward a alternative 10. build co-ordinated action On most of the major topics, selected STCYLIEILLILIES debate are limited to re-iterating existing policy, such urging the national execulive *to use all its resources to Similarly in the major debate limited to a single composite moton to witch there are no amendments. Resolutions calling for an end to immigration tbe repcal of the Order Act, and affiliation to the Anti Nazi League have been excluded. 10р.

The only additions to tbe -policy adopted last year are proposals to encourage participation of minorities in union

----- pull-quotes -----

and to re-affirm its opposition to the Government's economic strategy. An ASTMS delegate reports. ented eviden based Leer getting in with 103.622.

← CPSA ConferenceTransporting unity →

Something wrong on this page?