The 50 delegates voted to produce a worker» report on tne car incustrv. Jonn cra am, an ims memner trom the wiimot CORTOI Breeden components factory, motivated the proposal. He sharply attacked those members of the Communist Party at the conterence wno naa supported participa Peter Nicholas, convenor at Rover (Tysley) had tried to justify his collaboration with the Joint management com mittees set up under the Ryder report.
He said that it was onlv throuah particip duine on enese committees that the senior stewards had discovered what the secret part of the Ryder Report was all about. Graham said that the lack of information in the car industry should not be met by collaboration with the bosses but by a trade union campaign to oper the books of the industry, to prepare a plan for nationalisation under workers The committee elected to prepare the report had stewards and delegates from Wilmot Breeden, Rover Solihull, Vaux hall Luton, Chrysler Coventry, and Ford Dagenham. A recall conference will be held shortly Graham said that the organising com mittee should interview MPs to make pub nc une intormation diven in contidentia reports to the Government. The Committee will be prepared to co-opt repres entatives from other car plants to devel op une unamos or tne committee Ine convenor erected was sim snut who can be contacted at oo sir Henry Parkes Road, Canley, Coventry
Red Weekly 5 February 1976 Recall TUC/3