THE AIR AND DISCUSSION WERE BRACING
By Tom Kemp
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contains provisions on hours of work, time off for meals, split shifts, clothing and holidays, ; Members complain that the branch has not secured the best possible terms, and that conditions have been slipping back over the years. Thus the time allowed for many journeys has-been. cut.
: -.FOR LABOUR STUDENTS .- By John Daniels ‘I HAVE just. spent seven of the most hectic, but rewarding, days of a long political life—this time, however, as a university student.’
In these words, an old socialist miner from Wales summed up his feeling on the NALSO camp-school held in the bracing air of a Lowestoft holiday camp on September 12-19.
About 120 Labour university students studied. and discussed the chaHenging ‘subject. “Beyond the Welfare : State’. _ An innovation for Labour students, the camp-school proved to. be. an unqualified success, and is certain. to’ be repeated next year, = The ideas ‘of Fabian pundits: jostled with the ideas of trade unionist. militants. Scholarly - lectures “by university sociological research workers were followed by the rude blasts of ‘committed’ socialists. “ Everything was in the melting pot, except. the keen vigour of young -people who wanted and intended—in spite of some Jeremiahs. who thought that ‘socialism had: missed the bus’ to build socialism in their time. ~ , Denis Healey-and Michael Stewart, Labour MPs, were the targets of-some boisterous criticism, Stuart Hall ‘and- other supporters of the Universities. and Left Review were given a serious and thoughtful reception, and Brian Behan received an enthusiastic response when he spoke of real and fake workers” -control. pitt And all’ the time, of course,.discussion. -[ ECONOMICS -Is THERE A ‘RADIANT FUTURE’ WITHOUT