Cv 2 UNION POSTS
Motions tabled for discieeton at the st conference of the 7.5.%.A. at Blackpool foreshadow a political storm, Ths issue is the eppeal of 4 assistant soorotaries against the oxeocutive's proposed appointment of less sonior officials to the posts of deputy gonersl oscratary and general treasurer, ilthough 96 branches endorse one or both of the names chosen by the executive, 39 are critical of tha proposals, ‘ome come cut fully in support of ona or more of the 4 officials who claim to hava been passed over, tut othors merely sugcsest temporary or procrastinating measures pending further examination of the problem,
The axecutive have claimed in a circular that the 4 officials were appointed "when the association was "in the hands of the Tommunist Party " and that appointments wera conditioned ty these circumstances, Many branches are ang-y about this assertion. Ons urras the wevere roprimadnins of the executive because of its blackoning of “the characters of officers who have many years of devoted service." Another said that this had tha affect of smearing ths 4 at a time when they had chance to answer.