'Tender meat ol show in Scotland
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'SWEETNESS and light' were the order of the day at the Scottish Labour Party conference in Perth last weekend. Controversy was to be kept off the agenda lest the potential voters in Hillhead be frightened away.
"The red meat of socialism will be on view at this conference, but hopefully it will be more tender than in previous years" ' said chaitperson George Galloway.
Time and time again, the weaker of two composites on an issue was passed by the conference, while any composites containing even a trace of what the mass media would term 'extremism' were voted down.
Thus, on the cuts for example, a composite makan undefined call for 'united and effective resistance was passed, while the composite advocating cuts and no rent/rate rises, backed by industrial action, was defeated.
But the section of the Standing Orders Committee report dealing with women, which would have prevented any seats on the Scottish Council of the Labour Party being reserved for women until after 1984, was successfully referred back.
Another challenge to the Standing Orders Committee resulted in a guarantee that there would be annual conferences of the Scottish Labour Women's Council. passed overwhelmingly advo- And a composite was cating unilateral nuclear disarmament and a campaign to ensure that no trade union labour is used on missile sites in order to prevent them being built.
The demand contained in one motion for immediate withdrawal from NATO disappeared during compositing, leaving only a vague statement that the above policies should have "priority over the principle of continuing membership of NATO'.
Stan Crooke