*WHEN the firemen lost, all the public service anions lost too'. That's what Alan Yates, President of the National Union of Public Employees, said when he opened the union's conference on Sunday.
RICH PALSER reports from Margate.
On Monday the debateon pay brought a different atticade from the union leadersbip.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 18 May 1977 page 6 defend union policy on wager by claiming that the firemen hac i sooned a victory!
The turn-around came when the executive supported resolution calling for public employoes* wages to be linkedto the averageindustrial wage —as the firemen had been promised At the same conference endorsed a union wages strategy' to win a 35 hour week and a 160 minimum wage Which of these two harses the executive chooses to ride in the next wage negotiations will depend on whether delegates approach can bave an effect in the union. Such an alternative approach was ser out in a resolution, defeated at conter: ence, which called for a E65 minimwo wage; a 35 hour week: wages with every rise in the cost offiving; as well as a nuruber of time, other benefits.
To win this, the resolution called for a common claim and settlement date for all NUPE members, for action alongside other public sector workers and for a special union conferenceto decide on action should the claim rise in strike Jenve its members incresses indusrial wage.
the bulletin of the Campaigo for Action in NUPE commented on last year's claim:
Instead of fighting alongside not enough. the firemen, the Executive was content to give tbem money and await the ourcome of their forward, I will he up to CAN to organise to see that the union pursues its objectives for a 160 minimum wage and does no SHOE PY Jike the firemen whose fates were tied to in the average
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JULIAN HODGE Thursday afternoon. SIR GEORGE Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons, was visibly upset by an MP's remark during whatis known as Business Questions in Parliament last Deanis Skinner, angered by the catcalls he received while attempting to ask a question about the Windsor Safari Park strike, and riled at the Speaker's interruptions, was moved to suggest:
"Let's have a debate then about who's got shares in Julian Hodge.' Thomas turned several shades of was years ago. In 1950 and *51, Callaghan Parliamentary and Financial Secretary at the Admiralty. His boss was Lord Hall, who went on to become chairperson of Cinent and West ol England Enterprises, then the most important of Hodge's companies.
In any event, by the mid "60% Tim and Julian were well acquainted, with the latter actively assisting the election