Engineering delegates' rebuff to Phase Three SCANLON BARRED FROM NO 10 TALKS

HUGH SCANLON was yesterday instructed by his union conference here to pull out of the current TUC talks with the Tory government on Phase Three of the state pay laws.

After a four-hour debate, which ScanIon himself insisted should be 'sharpened up to a point that there's going to be no ambiguity', an amendment approving the engineers' president's attendance at Downing Street was defeated by 35 votes to 33 with one abstention.

A composite motion declaring continued opposition to any form of wage-restraint and calling on the trade union movement 'to Day-long Chrysler talks see page 12 Members the Chrysler workers' negotiat ng committee were locke i in daylong negotiations with the management in Coventry yesterday. Seen entering the talks at the municipal buildings are (l. to r.): Frank Lake, chairman of AUEW stewards; Albert Demaelly, NUVB convenor; and Joe Molloy, chairman of the joint shop FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE withdraw from dealing with the govern carried by 39 vodes to mes policy was then At this point, Scanlon announced: means I do not attend the talks.

Throughout the debate, which spread over two days, Communist Party and 'left' speakers fought to interpret this composite as meaning Scanlon could continue taking part in the TUC-Heath talks.

But Scanlon himself challenged BELLE VUE the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history Special showing of Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manchester. delegates to make a clear decision about his attendance. He said that if particular amendment was passed, which simply 'emphasized' its opposition to wage restraint when dealing with the government, then he would attend.

This crucial amendment to let Scanlon again go to Downing Street was supported by the right and the centre.

The Stalinists, faced with the issue despite all their efforts to avoid it, had to vote against.

On Monday, the Communist Party members and supporters had deliberately dropped a motion, demanding the end of all the talks, in favour of the composite.

Yesterday the only delegates to oppose unequivocally Scanlon's participation in the talks were two engineers' section men from the north east, Andy McKay and Jackie Crystal.

Arthur Scott, President of the technicians' section, said that if the motion was carried unamended it would mean the union should set an example and not go to talks.

Then, under pressure from Scanlon to state clearly the implication of his motion, Brian King the technicians' delegate from Hull stated: 'If the President is to align himself with the policies of the union as an individual member he should not take part in talks with the Tory government.' Jimmy Hamilton, the Glasgow delegate, expressed a typical view of the Stalinist and 'left' groupings. It was difficult for him to accept that discussions and talks should take place, he said, 'but that's the stage we're at and we have to accept that' Andy McKay, from South Shields, however, insisted that there should be no 'acrobatics' or 'riding of two horses'.

It was not for the TUC to solve the economic problems of the Tory government, he said. If at the end of the day there was even half a compromise deal between the Tories and the TUC leaders, there would be no return of a Labour government.

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AND STALINISM Today on page 8 we print second letter from Monty Johnstone of the Communist Party. A fivepart rep friday. part reply will begin on MRS KATHLEEN HOSEY, whose son John was yesterday sentenced to five years' jail under the notorious South African Terrorism Act, said yesterday she was deeply shocked and appalled at the savage sentence.

She appealed to the labour and trade union movement in Britain to demand the withdrawal of investment from South Africa and • the release of all political prisoners. • See page 2.

Press, Thursday June 21, 1873