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Charles Smith Under Fire From Union Mimbers

The Week Vol. 6, No. 16, 4 November 1966 · p. 7 of the scan · 161 words

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from the MORNING STAR The support of the executive of the 96,000 i Engin

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for the Government's incomes policy and for legal sanctions to eeeatst: oa under fire from union members on Monday October 31st. More than 1 000 London members vacked the Kingsway Hall (London) to hear Mr. Charles Smith, general secretary, report on the incomes policy and i i i

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Member after member criticised the executive for " a after the union's annual conference had given a Petes sey imation im Mr. E. Shackleton, of London Power branch, was loudly cheered when he ach od : that there was grave disquiet that decisions being made were decisions of the executive and not those of the members. A number of members also pressed for a special conference to discuss the proposed reorganization of the Post Office a public corporation divorced from the Civil Service. i

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