The following is the text of a
letter explaining the reasons for the calling of the Nationsl Conference Against Wage Freeze, Unemployment and in Defence of our Trade Unions.
Any reader who is interested in becoming a delegate or requiring any further information should write to Brother Hiles,. SPONSORS London Building Workers Joint Sites Committee ENV S/Stewards Committee EMI S/Stewards Committee london Exhibition Workers Co-ordinating Committee Port of London Docks Liaison Committee London Sheet Metal Workers! Committee Hawker Siddeley S/Stewards Committee (Kingston) Ambrose Shardlow's Joint S/Stewards Confed. Com. Port of London Ship Repair S/Stewards Committee Works Committee, Rover Co. Tyseley, Birmingham Magnatex S/Stewards Com. Ford's Body Plant S/S Committee, Dagenham Shell Chemicals (Carrington) Joint S/S Committee Carrington Const. Site Joint Site S/S Committee Ratcliffe Tool Co., Joint S/S Committee Budenberg Gauge.Co. Lid., Joint S/S Committee May & Baker Joint S/S Committee The Decca Joint S/S Com. Cramic Joint S/S Com.
National Conference Against Wage Freeze, Unemployment and in Defence of our Trade Unions. Saturday 3rd December 1966, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Beaver Hall London E.C.4. (3 minutes from Bank or Mansion House Underground stations). Your organization is invited to elect delegates (5/- fee for delegates up to 4), to this important Conference which is open to bona fide representatives from Trade Union organizations, Shop Stewards Committees and Trade Councils. It will take place in a situation representing the most serious threat to trade unionism and to organised labour this century. The Government Wage Freeze, the plan for large scale unemployment - already started - the punitive measures against T.U. officials, shop stewards and active trade unionists, and the demand constantly made at the Royal Commission on Trade Unions for further legislation against the Unions - all this threatens to wipe out all the gains and advances made by trade union struggle and sacrifice over the past 150 years. The purpose of this Conference is to discuss the best ways and means of mobilising our trade unions and trade unionists for action and campaigning against these vicious attacks, and suggestions and. ideas, preferably sent in before the Conference, will be welcome. The Conference is of course an advisory one and no decisions seeking to bind the delegates or the organizations will be made. The Cost of organising the Conference will be considerable and a donation and use of the enclosed collecting sheet will be greatly appreciated.
J. HILES
Conference Arrangements Secretary
e/o 1 Teynton Terrace
Tottenham N.17