Post Office Engineers affiliate to

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At its annual conference, which is being held in Eastbourne, the Post Office Engineering Union decided to affiliate to Labour. The decision was taken after an appeal by the general secretary, Mr. Charles Smith, to conference not to postpone the decision as some delegates suggested. The conference took a card vote on the issue with the result of 37,298 for, and 28,701 against. The president's address to the conference showed how the union has had to face political issues and this probably helped to sway the vote. The two main issues were (1) the price ring existing in the supply of telephone equipment - the president pointed to the Swedish P.O. which manfuactures equipment as a price check against private manufacturers; (2) the "disastrous and unfair pay pause policy" of the Government.