Env_shop Stewards Org‘nise Conference

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We have received from the ENV Joint Shop Stewards! Committee details of a conference they are organising on the theme: "Defend the Shop Stewards!" out "Every day, rank and file trade unionists and shop stewards come under attack, Employers, goverriment =nd the press are united to denounce the "“wreckers" in British industry. Proposed government legislation seems designed to undermine traditional methods of defending and improving members! wages and conditions. A meeting is being arranged to discuss the defence of the rank and file movement, the implications of incomes policy and the National Plan. Prominent members of the dockworkers, joint building sites committee, Post Office Engineers, London Airport workers, factory convenors and shop stewards have been invited to speak from the platform. The conference is at ‘Mahatma. Gandhi Hall, Fitzroy Square, London Wel. (near Portland Street and Warren Street tube stations), on Sunday, 16th January, 1966 at 2.30 pem. , . Susgestions for workecescsi continued ’ 5s One last point. To develop a genuine understanding and sypathetic personal contact between the various groupings on the left takes a lot of time and patience. Only if local CSE groups are prepared to take a long view shall we get any permanent results. It has taken us in Hull some five years to achieve our present quite modest scale of operations and if anyone believes there are some obvious short cuts they are deceivin’ themselves. If CSE groups remain predominantly either YS or middle class intellectuals, they will have failed; only those who mistake their own emotions for a class movement will be satisfied.