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ietnam iitee on January 18th but was una pean oa wit ti se eoeperata with the Ad Hoc Committee. a ee ary ner tee : ea to alter the date of our solidarity eeugergneran tea om gitar 17th We have booked Trafalgar Square for —¥ ome sans wate ti slammed for 2.50 pm. followed by a march a — Taba Dow Chemicals, the main manufacturers of napaim.— it March 47th pee te eo are planed during the preceding weeks to publicise
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sda, There will be an Ad Hoc Committee meeting and a mai BA ar anes ae evening at Toynbee Hall, Cea St. Bee ay tee a Ty a j tickers and posters V ; - . ee one j ry 8th, we will be showing a film
ist. The following week, on February oth, ; ; eS Javanese investi gating team which visited North Vietnam last year e of Address. During the period up to the March 47th demonstration be Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and the Vietnam Ad Hoc Committee will be operating from an office at 8, Toynbee St., London, E.1. Telephone BIS 9845. All correspondence should be sent to this address. Trade Union Conference. Full details of the conference, including agenda , proposals for future action etc. will be available next week. ‘The co-rdination of this conference has been taken over by ilike ifartin who has done a great deal of work in the past for Humbersice Voice. Woolwich Trades Council will be sending four delegates, we would like full details of those intending to take part as soon as possible. V.S.C. Medical Aid Fund. The Edinburgh branch of V.S.C. recently had a most successful flag day for the iledical Aid Fund. £160 was collected and this could easily have been improved upon if more collectors had been available. We still have a large number of collecting tin labels and small paper N.L.F, flags for this purpose and would suggest this type of activity for any local group wanting to publicise its activities as well as making a positive contribution to the Vietnamese people. Australia and lew Zealand in Vietnam. A Teach-in has been organised by A.N.Z.A.\/.V., one of the groups supporting the Vietnam Ad Hoc Committee, on Saturday, Jamuary 27th. It will be held in the Friends House, Euston Rd., N.i.1, from 3 p.m. to S pem. Speakers include Eric Hobsbawm, Peter iWorsley, Paul Ostreicher, Steven Rose and Robin Gollin, The chairman will be Kenneth Lee and invitations to speak have been sent to the High Commisioners for Australia and New Zealand; the ‘linister for South Vietnam and the Ambassador for Cambodia. It is intended that an ongoing organisation should be formed at the end of the discussion. Those interested in the group should contact John Roberts, 45 Norland Sqe, Weit.
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n Devon, O enthaeas sie heat and London South East would require a ite chem & =, coming policy because, in effect they ca?l iene = n rule, All changes in rule in D.A.T.A. require Such a: fs anh 4 or ia ete eis Not that the resolutions are likely . " gp at all: the leadership of the uni 1 different line, despite its o : OF eee ee
; pposition to the policies of the Wils re aces ge This was expressed in the December issue of D.A.T.A, "olewait ee a fe) _the union. In a strongly-arrued editorial opposing Joe Gormley's = of forming a new political party, the editors argued "Now for the rst time in the history of the British trade union movement there is a prospect of a stable majority for more radical policies, This is the significance of the recent election of Hugh Scanlon as the preseident of the A.E.U. In Britain's two largest unions, the TGWU and the AEU, the membership have shown they favour a leadership critical of the Government's economic policies," There are interesting motions on the question of industrial democracy on the agenda too, Port Talbot "endorses the Labour Party document on industrial democracy and calls for legislation for its early application to all industry..." The motion also calls for the "ripht to inspect books" to be made law. Bristol No. 2 calls upon industrial democracy to be intro° into publicly owned industries "by providing for representative councils consisting of delegates from trade unions and Government cepartments." Two other branches call for workers! participation in mergers (Greenock) and profit-making (Preston). No doubt many criticisms could be made of the wording ‘and line of these motions‘ but the most important thing is that the idea of workers! democracy is catching on. Readers of The Week will note with interest that one motion on Vietnam - from Coventry Central - says (1) that the same economic interests which are responsible for the US policy in Vietnam are eroding the living standards of the working people of Britain; and (2) that conference should " "pledge solidarity with the people of Vietnam and...support any organisatiion campaiening on a platform of solidarity with the people of Vietnam," The other motion of Vietnam, from Ealing branch, is also militant, calling for complete withdrawal of American bases and forces in Great Britain. The agenda certainly indicates that D.A.T.A. will continue to be in the forefront of the struggle against the right wing policies of the Government,
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