from Alec Acheson
Mr. Woodrow Wyatt is not entirely without support in the Bosworth area: Councillor Michael MeCarthy, of Hinckley, who resigned from the Labour Party earlier this year and joined the Liberal Party, told the Leicester Mercury, "One reason I resigned was that there were too many people in the party obsessed with power politica and trying to tell people to toe the line. I feel a man should do what he thinks is in the best interests of thoe who elected him end I am sure Woodrow Wyatt has done this." He added that he supports Mr. Wyatt's views on steel nationalisation. Mr. Jim Dick, the local secretary of the Boot and Shoe Union, told the paper that the views of his members could not emerge without a meeting, However, he added: "I personally support I. Wyatt, and am I am prepared to say so. Eut I do not support the way he has gone about things."
The strugele has new taken the form of a battle between the N,U.M, and the Sho® Workers! Union = 4,0,.5,5.0. <- to make a nomination to replace Woodrow Wyatt (with party officials hovering in the background trying to prevent a decisive showdown because of the small Labour majority). From 1945 until Mr. Wyatt won a by-election in 1957; the N.U.B.5.0. official, Arthur illen, was M.P. for Bosworth, Transport House got the miners to support Woodrow Wyatt (probably with some quid pro quo somewhere else) and now the N.U.M. have the chance to replace him with a member of their OWL UNLoON.s
tis the Hosiery Workers! Union has twice failed to get ite members to agrees to affiliate to the Lebour Farty, the most important and biggest section of local workers are not directly represented in this palace revolution. There is no real question of a left wing revolt except by a few militant miners who are not particularly political, This area is a prosperous one of full employment, plenty of clean work for women, and high wages for men hosiery workers. There has been little industrial strife since the war in any of the 3 major industries,