Fringe Lynk has also released record with song describing Scargill as a liar deceiver. Many Notts see this childish ridiculous, the breakaway campaign more harm than good.
Lynk's case suffered a further blow when leading met at their quarterly meeting last Thursday, one week after the AUEW for-ballots issue.
The stewards decided unanimously to launch 'the most intense campaign for a 'no' vote in the November ballot. The meeting adopted a resolurecogolseu that acceptance of state unions is the thin edge of the wedge the unions'.
number of stewards pointed out that such state contro had already starter with rule changes that had been adopted by the union in ensure compliance with anti-union legislation.
in July, the AUEW executive council had sent out a nowinfamous circular advising SHOP STEWARDS in South Manchester ALEW just executive and TUC general council had concluded their congress deal Inevitably, the meeting was dominated by the cashshop stewards with the 1984 Trade Union Act. Such a storm of rank and file protest greeted the circular that general secretary Gavin Laird had been forced to retreat.
In the August issue of the union's journal, Laird went into print to explain that the executive counci were not insisting on such ballots in strict conformity with the law' and that pay would not be withheld 'because members did not conform to Employment Act.
The shop stewards' quarterly meeting resolved to build on that sentiment by: • Produce a leaflet for mass distribution and a poster for display in the factories along the theme of 'keep the state out o the ALEW - keep th ALEN in the TUC Organise a public raily with national movement speakers help promote the cam Ensure that mass meetings and factory-gate meetings are held on the subject • Set up a special cam paign committee, involy Ing shop stewards other members *to ensure the most effective implementation of the resolution'.
Militant shop stewards are asto pousamg tor a specia divisional shop stewards ensure that the campaign is spread to other districts