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THE NATIONAL Union of Seamen has voted for an emergency resolution from the union executive The right-wing leadership supporting a British invasion of the Falklands.
There was opposition from left-wingers, including the Liverpool branch which had submitted a resolution opposing the war. But the executive steamThe conference endorsed incomes rollered over this, just as it had previously opposed the union's Felixstowe Port Committee, which policy. It backed talks for amalgam- advised union members to refuse to sail on requisiation - or perhaps a loose link-up tioned ships to the South Atlantic. short of amalgamation - with the The NUS has many members working in the South Atlantic fleet, and a decision by it to black the war G&M and or EETPU, building up. a effort could have been a real blow against Thatcher. solid right-wing bloc in the TUC. But the NUS executive justified its stance on the And it voted to support Thatcher's spurious 'trade union' grounds that a quick invasion would be better for its members' safety than a long APEX on three issues at the terence. war. blockade.