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‘ , ; : es This week the circularisation.of trade unions and labour parties the workers! control conference at Coventry on June 10th-llth is being carried out. If you do not receive a circular, and would like full details, please apply to 1, Plantation Drive, Anlaby Park, Hull. Alre it is apparent that this year's conference will be the most aisepentative be far in this series. The chair is to be taken by Bill Jones, London busmen's leader and vice-president of the T & GWU. Amongst those who have promised to attend and participate during the week-end are Ernie Roberts, Assistant General Secretary of the ABU, and Hugh Scanlon of the ABU National Executive Committee. Vic Allen ( author of "Militant Trade Unionism" ) and Michael Barratt-Brown ( author of "After Imperialism") will also be present. A number of trade union organisations, including Bristol Siddeley Shop Stewards Committee, and Coventry Trades Council, are backing the Coventry CSE's sponsorship of the conference. From the steel town of Scunthorpe, the Redbourn Works Delegates Committee has also come forward as a sponsor. Terry Lacey, of the Radical Student Alliance and the Young Liberals, is to attend, this provides a valuable link with the Y.L., who recently adopted a policy of workers! control on municipal transporte Jack Ashwell, author of the Humber-side Voice pamphlet "Four Steps for Progress", which advanced the municipal transport programme two years ago, is to attend conference as convenor of a seminar on industrial democracy in public services.