ACTT
1970Charles Parkins Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
vote down Dec 8 OFFICIAL backing for the December 8 stoppage against Tory anti-trade union legislation was narrowly voted down yesterday by leaders of Britain's 15,000 cinema and television technicians.
Communist Party members and supporters voted with right-wingers to defeat the motion.
Stalinist fears that support for December has snowballed on a scale that threatens to explode the protest framework within which the Party hoped to confine it have been evident for some time.
Last Monday, CP members voted at a meeting of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians' freelance shop to delete from a motion supporting December 8 a call for the Trades Union Congress to mobilize a general strike.
Then at yesterday's ACTT general council meeting, some of the same people voted against even the December 8 call.
They plumped instead for a motion that shop meetings to discuss the proposed Bill should be summonsed on the day in question and that members taking strike action individually should be officially supported.
More food prices up PRICES of New Zealand lamb, butter and cheese may rise soon as ship-owners are pressing for higher freight charges on the Europe-New Zealand run.
Already freight rates on the run are to rise 12} per cent on February 1 next year and negotiations for a further increase should be completed in two or three weeks' time.
25 years of the United Nations PAGE TWO TWENTY-FIVE Monday, November 23, 1970