RANK AND FILE national council members Fred Leplat and Claire Weingarten have called for urgent action by the council on the Ford strike In a letter sent on 6 October to Rank and File secretary Micky Fenn, they argued that the Ford Sirike 'unprecedentedly good situation defeat the Government's 5 per cent limit, and requested an ешегчена -meeung national council.
ELECTED This council was elected at a delegate conference of Rank and File held during the FBL strike last winter.
In calling for the emergency meeting. Lenlat and Weingarten both members of the #ternanonal Marxist Group suggested that the council discuss the convening or a national solidarity conference to build support for all those going into struggle against the AN HOTE Their letter emphasised that a big appeal should be made to the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions to co-sponsor the conference' and similar invitations be erienced to an class struggle groupings in the unions.
Fred Leplat says that despite the urgency of the situation, they have not so far received a ACTION With all the left talk by the union leaders and by Communist Party-led LCDTU, he considers, 'we've got to put real pressure on to 'If Rank and File, which is dominated by the Socialist Workers Party, is to mean anything as an effective body, it must act - and act now.
*Socialist Challenge hopes to be carrying an interview with Micky Fenn next week.
A request for an interview secretary Jim was turned down. don't do interviews, he told our reporter.
Socialist Challenge 26 October 1978 page 5