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We understand that the Communist Party ollicially supporis ine working women's But at a meeting of Hull Trades October, CP showco nat in t3ci They wouro launeraly themselves with the most reactionary wing of the trade union movement than wine inceoencent orcanisation At this meeting the Executive Commitree or ine races council recommenoed the regularisation" [i.e. reconstitution] of women's subcommittee to wereDy banding the existing Working Women's Charter group established a year ago as a suD commited Trades Council. The EC attempted to present their refait accompli by using as their tool CP member Ray Flint. who immediately proposed the election of delegates without any discussion of the principles involved.

Fortunately inese brincibies taken up by a member of the international Socialists. But a lively discussion failed to orevent ine motion irom oeine camried by 31 votes to 11, with the help not only of the Communist Party but also of their auses in bureaucratic stuccie porters of the Militant.

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- disbanding a group whose initiatives tend to take it out of bureaucratic control, and replacing it with a group of passive delegates through a return to the rule The Hu WW croup wi continue f to support its sisters in struggle, as it did over the Trico equal pay dispute by raising £42 from the Council and £100 from the dockers as a result of approaching the Port snoo stewaros committee, зпо will continue its campaign for improved nursery facilities in Hull, which has already lec to ine estabisnment or a saturday playgroup on Bransholme housing esThe right-wing leadership of the Trades Council have turned their backs on such initiatives, but the Hull WWC group will not turn away wrom me labour movement. Of gents These tils, no or will we will fight to forge not be built by dropping the independent demands of women in order to snuggle bureaucracy. They will be fighting around the programme of the Charter. -CLAIRE DE CASPARIS, A. FITZSIMONS (Hull Working Women's Charter Campa-