Support for the conference is now coming in’as a quickening flow of applications for credentials... Postal registrations for conference now total: over 50, and together with the shop steward and labour movement participation indicated from the Midlands area, the conference already tops the 100 mark. This is extremely encouraging - there are still three weeks to go, and we are confident that the attendance this year will sur- Latest registrations include the Humberside Voice delegation, of five people, steel workers delegates, more student delegates and a delegation of three from the N.U.M. West Clayton Branch in Yorkshire,
Standard Motors Joint Shop Stewards! Ccmmittee are sending up to 30 delegates. Also from the Midlands come applications from three delegates of 5/156 Branch of the T & GWU. Preston Left Club is sending a delegate, as is the°’Hull University Socialist Society. In the student democracy seminar, we shall also have David Adelstein, the student president at the L.S.E. whose suspension was the cause of the demonstrations and sit-in there, last term, and John Armstrong from Rochdale. Two delegates from the 1/344 branch of the T & GWU in London are joining the car industry seminar, and there are five delegates from 1/343 and one from 1/385 branches of the T&G in London, joining the bus transport group. The Bristol Siddeley aircraft shop stewards are meeting next week to discuss a 20 page pamphlet on workers' control in aircraft, which they intend to publish in time for conference. Conference arrangements. Will people attending the workers' control conference please note that the number of applications for private accommodation over=night, now exceeds the number of private beds which have been offered. In view of this, the Coventry CSE are making arrangements for overnight accommodation to be provided in the Stoke Guildhouse, a corporation hostel which is, whilst not three star hotel standard, a good, clean, hospitable place, with single bedrooms, washbasins in all rooms etc. Bed and breakfast costs 13/6d. We regret this extra expense for delegates, and we hope that your delegating organisation will meet this cost for you. Application for credentials, fees, etc., should continue to be sent to 1, Plantation Drive, Anlaby Park, Hull, together with your request either for the hotel list, cr for private accommodation (which will now be the hostel), or with the information that. you are making your own arrangements for accommodation. These re=quests are being forwarded from Hull to the Coventry CSi. The Coventry CSE will inform all who have been placed in the hostel, before the conference, giving the address, etc. The hotel list of local hotels in Coventry will be sent to those who have requested it, very shortly. Please hurry with your application ag - the organisers have a great many preparatory arrangements O make.