: i i i i the past three N tént with wrecking Party organisation in London ‘over il co refusing to allow a Greater London Lebour Party to be set up) and thus contributing to the quite unnecessary loss of ILEA as well *s the GLC — Sere Berker is up to her old tricks egein.
the recent electoral rout to accept the principle of en allon phn Sara hes set up an ed hoc working party of Transport House nominees to determine the new structure. This fact came to light when Conference delegates demanded to know who had set up this new body and whom it was supposed to represent. It was clear from Bert Fry's reply thet Transport House hoped to decide the future structure in private and then have it approved at Annuel Conference in October - without eny mandate from tarty organisations in London. Fry, who rules the Trensport & Generel delegetion with en iron hand and ensures thet its vote is cast for the most reectionery candidetes end policies ,wes uneble to prevent Conference unanimously adopting the London Coop demand for en immediste conference of inner and outer London affiliates to formulste renk-and-file policy for the new set-up. Though Fry got the bird, and Rog Jenkins' set speech ended in three minutes of pandemonium hen Mellish refused to sllow delegates right of reply to his partisen remarks — the biggest row, by all accounts, took place in the Executive meeting immediately efter Conference when IMellish, backed up by the Secretary end Fry, refused to take steps to call the specisl conference demanded unanimously by Conference in the LCS resolution. Sara hed given orders that on no account was a representative all-London gathering to be allowed to discuss their own future. Will London Perties take this rebuff lying down or will they invoke Standing Order 1(c) under which any 10 affilieted orgsenisations cen require the Executive to circulete ell other member bodies on their behelf. Those B.C. members who oppose the complete rejection of e untnimou.s Conference decision by Mellish and his supporters should make the facts known by circulating a minority report. London hes entered the ere of region-l government. Its politics should be conducted openly by the representatives of mess orgenisstions - sand not by a secret Perty ceucus of locel bosses whose inedequecies h-ve recently been so peinfully reveeled.