PROBLEMS OF ORGANISING RANK AND FILE ance of two new rank-and-file papers.
Supporters of the International Socialists were already producing a paper called Engineers Charter. This has now been joined by Broadsheet, the official organ of the Communist Party dominated Broad Left in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers; and a new Engineering Voice produced in the Birmingham area. Although the militants producing une latter are also associated with the Broad Left, there are certain differences in its political line.
What characterises both papers, however, is their lack of practical perspectives for engineering workers and any notion of mounting a real campaign for them inside the main unions in engineering. Broadsheet is almost entirely confined to the AUEW elections, centring its propaganda around the need to get 'lefts" like Bob Wright elected to official positions in the union.
SUPPORT union membership opposed to the class-collaborationist politics of the right-wing leadership. But the fight must go forward for a clear break with the policies of the Labour Government and the launching of action inside the AUEW to defeat This must include building for a national lobby of the next AUEW National Committee to demand the rejection of incomes policy and acceptance of amalgamation to create one engineering union; and the organisation of local committees to build for such a lobby on the basis of opposition to all forms of wage restraint To carrv such a light inrougn will also require demands which are ENGINEERING Black Country a VOICI CANDIDATES Pages 485 NO TO CUTS IN LIVING STANDARDS Birmingham Engineering Voice PUBLIC MEETING ENGINEERING VOICE
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