STNUGGL: IN MoNSIYSIDS C.N.D. by a correspondent
Judging from the last meeting of the Central Committee of the Mersey— side C.N.D. held on May 31st, it is clear that the C.P. in this region, at least, is making a bid to control the whole movement. No doubt one of the ultimate objectives being to jettison the Industrial Action project as soon as may be 'dec= ently' done. We intend to counter this by attempting to draw in specifically industrial delegates from C.N.D. factory committees.
The whole atmosphere of the meeting was obnoxious in the extreme. The C.P. elements (mostly in the semi-antique class) rejected any idea of a younger Vice-Chairman on grounds of 'lack of experience' and tried to exclude in future any observers (because of a rumpus at a previous meeting.) xperience of the industrial work, etc., points ever and again to the pernicious influence of these self regarding mtual admiration bureaucrats who seo themselves as some superboings destined to channel the movement into a path carefully worked out by them selves alone. Such has bsen the incompetence of this self-righteous committee that the resolutions before the annual C.N.D. Congress were not even distributed to the membsrship for discussion.
On a national scale the C.P. will probably throw its weight against industrial action by lining up with the Peggy Duffs. Although C.N.D. will, no doubt, continue to expand, the miserable alliance between the 'liberal' elements and the centrist Krushchovite deadbeats is something to be watched, as it is most soriously also in other parts of our struggle, in the trade unions and the Labour Party itself.