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Weighell: his departure is a victory for the left The problem with the paign would be getting the election campaign is that the candidates to speak to union rules forbid political special branch meetings. statements in internal circul NUR rules don't (yet) forbid ars. The only chance of political discussion in branch getting politics into the cam- meetings! represented at hearings • OI tribunals, they will not be eligible for branch or national office, they will not be able to represent the union at any level for this time.
A small minority demanded. the expulsion of the scabs (and in some branches this had been passed at the same time as a call for a censure of Weighell) but - with Weighell campaigning against it - the strike effectively lasted only 18 hours and to go into a fight with BR over the closed shop over this would have been ridiculous.
That Weighell has gone is a victory for the left. But the acceptance of the McCarthy report shows the tasks facing us in the union. We now have to build a strong, effective left based on campaigning local broad left groups. The central issues facing the left in the TO ENTER India: fighting moves coming months.are:
1. The campaign to get a left candidate elected as General Secretary.
2. A campaign to ensure an all-out strike on November 8 (transport workers' strike in support of the health workers' pay claim).
3. Solidarity with the miners - no movement of coal - in their strike over pay and jobs.
The latest issue of Left Lines - journal of the Broad Left railway workers is now available, price 10p from 2 Binstead Gardens, Sheffield 6.
Ian Williams, NUR Executive Committee member, said: "The most important thing is to get a commitment from the candidates that they are prepared to stand for reelection in five years' time." It's easy to see why. It, for example, Jimmy Knapp was elected under present rules he'd have the job for 23 years.
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considering the lack of leadership given to the strike