This weekend, the third Voice seminar on workers' control to take place in just over twelve months will be held in Manchester. From all possible advance accounts, this will be the most imposing meeting yet. It will : Sheffield, Manchester and London are expected, Scottish socialists heveexpressed a keen interest in the proceedings, and propose to corvene their own gathering. In Manchester represe,tatives of the steel industry will discuss the detailed programmes for workers' control and self-management which have been elaborated by study-groups drawn from both industries. At the same time, the rapidly evolving discussion on incomes policy, will be carried forward. More and more people are expressing an interest in the proposals which have been canvassed at previous seminars: that no incomes policy discussions can begin to bear fruit until the employers! accounts are fully available to union inspection, This argument will be seriously extended this week end.
The Week has already prepared pamphlets on the first two seminars, We hope to provide the same service for the third, But what are the next moves? There must be serious and sustained efforts to carry the whole discusgion onto the floor of the Labour Party Conference and the 1T.U.C. Already workers! control campaign has begun to move into the mainstream of politics. It must occupy its rightful place at the centre of the discussion of organised Labour this Autum, (Enquiries about the workers! control conference should go to: Alan Rooney, 241la, Dickenson Rd., Manchester 13)