Labour's NEC, received a blow when volea oy a nute Hall a campaign against the poll tax which did not rule out civil disobedience. TWaS understood that this involved challenging the idea of staying within the law, and supportive of the EC Conference voted for COE good conference with supporters playing a key role in many debates. Eric Heffer addressed meeting further meeting on P&O was attended by 60. The journal of the Broad Lef sold well.
Following conterenci the AGM of the Broad Left takes place on 3 July. BAKER In conjunction with the electrical industry employers, the leadership set itself to bring 'order to an industry tha had a particularly high leve of industrial militancy a high rate of unofficial strikes and walk-outs. It was also about the best organised sector of the contracting noustres.
The mechanism for this was the 1968 Joint Industry Board agreement whereby UnC worked with management to prevent unofficial strikes The smashing of the left in the union through the early 70s achieved this goal, but not without an enormous cost to the union's membershin levels in this its largest SCCLO!
Management protected the union's and its own interests by introducing check-off where the employer paid union subs automatically to the EET-