Glasgow rank & file organize

The Newsletter, vol. 6 no. 272, 10 November 1962 · scan page 4

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SPONSORED by a group of shop stewards and militants in engineering and other factories on the Clyde, a rank and file Labour Congress is to be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 11, in the Partick Borough Halls, Glasgow.

The speakers at this meeting will all be members of the Labour movement who have been witch-hunted by the right-wing trade union and Labour Party leaders.

The speakers include Roger Protz, editor of the recentlyproscribed Young Socialist paper Keep Left, and a member of the ETU whose has been prominent in the fight for democratic control of the union.

KINCARDINE

Members of the ETU from Falkirk will be present who were associated with the 13-week strike of the Kincardine Bridge electricians, whose fight against the employers was broken by the intervention of the leadership of the union.

The aim of the Congress is to 'strengthen the Labour and trade union movements in the fight against the Tories'. It also declares that it intends to fight to see the scrapping of the 'whole paraphernalia of the witch-hunt which cripples the working class in their struggles with the employers.

The Congress has itself been witch-hunted. The Secretary of the Glasgow City Labour Party, Mr. T. G. Simpson, has circulated his members with the instruction that they must not attend the Congress.

"GBA' DEFEATED

The reason he gives is that its secretary, Alec McLarty, is a member of the Socialist Labour League. For Mr. Simpson the Brighton conference of the Labour Party and its defeat of 'guilt by association' might never have taken place, but being a full-time official, he believes, entitles him to ignore conference decisions!

His very actions are themselves a justification for the calling of the rank and file congress-to fight against the witch-hunt and to thus strengthen the working class.

The Scottish Area of the Socialist Labour League will be sending delegates to the Congress and will work to help make it a success.

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE PUBLIC MEETING Liverpool LEADERSHIP AND THE WORKING CLASS How to fight unemployment, race hatred, witch-hunts)

Stork Hotel, Queen Square, 7.30 p.m., Sunday, November Admission 1/-