place in Manchester on 17 May.
delegates representing members.
Delegates demanded that all EETPU members working at 'fortress Wapping' should be brought out on strike. This followed the picket that had been organised by print workers of the EETPU I conference EDeN previous week. picket had been joined b two coachloads of electricians from Liverpool. The i callull general secretary Eric Hammond's shows that a groundswell of op position was developing inside the EETPU.
Hammond now finds himself rather isolated in DESPITE THE agreeThe conference which was organised by Flashlight, the Broad Left organisation in the EETPU, was attended by over 70 thousands EETPU the trade union movement over his Wapping stand. This has prevented him Ray Sinfield power distribution shop steward, (personal capacity) from using the traditional red-baiting card against Crucal opponents in the EETPU It was in this framework inal ine conrerence debated the leadership's splittist policies deals single union agreements which, refusing to over led the union to the point of er DUSTO The conference rightly re. jected the idea of splitting the ọr members tearing up their cards in disgust.
The reaffirmed its approach to democratic reform of the union through the ending of the appointment system. unho tue elo, even though passed these important resolutions in support of the printers for democratic reform of the union, it failed to seize the time by changing the methods of struggle it has hitherto advocated which have so dismally failed to deal with the right wing leadership.
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