Left-wing groups 'subvert' the union-smear Post union chief joins the conference witch-hunts

allegations.

Later, Jackson apologized to the who were Labour Party supporters, versives, but did not withdraw the witch-hunting Jackson alleged that Communist Party members of the UPW had met in London to discuss the agenda and their fares had been paid by King Street. The SLL and the IS had nothing to give the union, he added.

Stalinists at the conference did not speak against the witch-hunt.

One delegate who did-before he was ruled out of order-Peter Bradford, said that the : democratic rights of trade unionists to hold political views must be defended. He likened Jackson's outburst to the witch-hunting at other recent union conferences.

The rule change, which would have allowed delegates the right BRIEFLY - BRIEFLY THE EXECUTIVE of the National Union of Teachers yesterday condemned the 22 per cent increase in school buildings cost limits announced by Educaticn Secretary Mrs Margaret Thatcher this week as 'wholly unsatisfactory'. The local authorities insisted that a general increase of 400 per cent was necessary. FORD HALEWOOD Transmission plant workers met at the Top Rank, Liverpool, yesterday and voted to accept the company's pay offer in line with the Tory state pay laws. Convenor Bernard Bradley refused to put to the 750-strong meeting a resolution of no confidence in the union leadership and another calling on the TUC to lead a fight against the government.

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Wednesday May Windmill Hotel' Witham movers of the rule change, for having called them subFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, DOUGLAS loM to reply after debates on amendments they had moved to the general report, was lost tollowing ackson's intervention.

But the executive was defeated on a similar issue concerning the right of reply to composite amendments to the general report.

Previously, the executive retained for themselves the right of reply on all amendments to their report.

Another successful rule change carried against the advice of the executive was to permit amendments to the general report expressing direct opposition to it. NO p Ice NO RENI NO RENT RENT HIRES T -INCE SI INCREASES ASES RESIDENTS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Council's 'two-faced' rents policy-tenants GREENWICH tenants ¡REENWICH tenants picketed the town hall at the weekend protest against the actions of the Labour council on the in protest against the rents question.

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'Cape of Good Hope' Dewsbury The Textile Hall. sday, May 24 7.30 Fares naid Previously, these had been out of order.

An executive motion to allow rules revision conferences only every five years instead of every three was also thrown out.

But a motion for automatic suspension from office of union officials who ignore union policy was defeated after an executive intervention opposing it. The issue arose out of alleged strikebreaking instances during the 1971 post strike.

RENT UP EVER But they later attended a meeting called by Labour councillor M. Jeffrey specifically to persuade the rent strikers to start paying.

The tenants claim the council has adopted a two-faced attitude since capitulating to the Tory Housing Finance . Act. On the one hand it had resolved officially not to evict tenants for withholding rent increases. On the other hand, it had harassed rent strikers with eviction threats.

Mr W. Jeavons, for the Greenwich Tenants' and Residents' Campaign Committee, said: 'It is we who are carrying out Labour policy and not the council. It is not just an isolated strike here. Thousands all over the country are refusing to pay the increases' POST OFFICE workers' leaders have been given a virtual blank cheque to sign joint agreements with other unions, even if these have not been approved by a conference.

The executive of the Union of Post Office Workers defeated moves, at a rules revision conference, to commit it firmly to calling ballots of the members concerned before signing.

By a narrow card-vote majority it won approval of a rule amendment stating simply that it is the duty of the executive to consult the members.

Amendments to the special executive report on • wages indicate little opposition to the leadership's policy of going to the Pay Board. The UPW annual conference is to debate wages this week.

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May Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG BRIEFLY - BRIEFLY RETAIL price index published by the Department of Employment has shown a record rise in April. In one month, prices went up by 1.9 per cent, which is a rate of 23 per cent a year. Wages in 1973 are being kept by the Tory pay laws to an average 7 per cent a year increase. Compared with a year earlier, the index has been rising steadily since the alleged prices standstill came in last November when all wage increases were banned for five months.

The record prices leap in April was caused, the D of E says, by higher meal charges, rates and other services. Nearly half the 1.9-per-cent rise was caused by VAT, the government claims. STRIKING technicians decided on Saturday to obey a court order allowing officials of the University of East Anglia into the computer centre which they have been occupying since Wednesday. A High Court injunction required the operators and any others involved to allow the university and its agents to enter any part of the computing centre. But it did not require the operatorson pay strike for eight weeks— to leave the building.

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