Workers' Control Conference

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from Tony Topham, Over 1,500 circulars have so far been dispatched throughout the country, giving details and calling for delegates for the 5th National Conference «.@n Workers! Control, to be held in Coventry on June 10th-1lth, Enthusiasm for the conference is reported high amongst steel-workers in Scunthorpe and Sheffield. It is very significant that the branches of the production workers' union BISAKTA, last month adopted the original "Voice" programme for workers' control under nationalisation, as their official policy. A new paper, containing details of all the developments of recent months in this industry, is in course of preparation for preseritation to Conference. A special regional conference for steelworkers is béing convened in Sheffield as a forerunner to the national meeting = probable date: June 4th. (Information on this from Peter Smith, 14 St. Andrew Rd., Deepear, nr. Sheffield), Interest in the docks industry programme is bound to grow in the coming political period, and it is vital that the conference pin-points the issue of workers! control in the controversy which will shortly develop about the Government's proposal to nationalise the industry. It is now expect— ed that the Government measure will be introduced in the 1968-9 parliamentary session. The Tories are planning an .old-fashioned .anti-nationalisation campaign. The employers in the industry are already manouev~ ring for a strong position, pressing ahead with amalgamations and mergers, . and in.some cases placing themselves under the protective wing of the existing nationalised docks sector, - the B.1.D. B. There is also clamour ‘ for "port users" - i.e. the shipping companies, the international oil companies, etc., - to be given | dominant representation on the future nationalised estuarial Boards. The Government's position will undoubt- >» edly be taken up around some concessionary form of workers’ "participation". The steel-workers have shown how to go beyond this point, .|. , and it is vital that a really representative docks group should discuss a similar campaign, at the Coventry Conference. In this industry too, a new paper will be ready for presentation to conference. At the centre of activity in the Midlands, Coventry and Birmingham CSE branches are working hard on the spreading of information about the conference, and thousands of additional leaflets are being distributed to the labour parties, shop stewards and trade union bran-"’ ches, ‘in that area, Aircraft and car workers are expected to give the » epmenenes major support. sions sthere? delegates’ from printers and foundry workers branches have already registered. Information wbout conference, and application - forms, feun i, Tlibelo Drive, Anlaby Park, ‘Hull, a: