At a meeting held in Transport House, Belfast, on 8th May which was organised by the Belfast Trades Council, a motion was carried unanimously to pursue the elimination of religious discrimination in Northern Ireland. The meeting was attended by over sixty representatives from various trade unions and there were individuals from the following political organisations: the Northern Ireland Labour Party, the Republican Party, the Communist Party, and the Campaign for Social Justice.
The meeting which was intended to follow up. the one in London in March, this year, by the National Council for Civil liberties, was addressed by a member of the staff of Queen's University Faculty of Law. The speaker conce= ntrated on the many electoral anomalies that occur in Northern Ireland and he pointed out the need for a revision of the law with special regard to the limited franchise and the gerrymandering of ward boundaries,
A committee is to be formed from delegates representing the main trade unions and political parties, although it is expected that the Ulster Unionist Party will not be represented.
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