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ference to be addressed by Len Murray, Shirley Summerskill and Marie Patterson (Women's Officer of the TUC). This council is the body that replaced London Trades Council when it was dissolved last March, shortly after the conference where the Working Women's Charter first saw the light of day. Despite the opposition of the Trades Council to doing anything around the demands of the Charter, since that meeting a significant campaign has developed.
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Trades Councils in Sheffield and Manchester and Salford are also organising activities to "celebrate' International Women's Year - including a pageant in Manchester on July 12! It is no accident that this drum beating comes in a year when womregional Council conference is under firm bureaucratic control. They are aware of the campaign launched for the demands of the Charter. But rather than call a conference on how women have been organising, and how to take the campaign forward, they have decided on arrangements that prevent real discussion.
erested in building an effective campaign. Len Murray will use the occasion to boast about how much the trade union movement has done in the fight for women's rights. Patterson will say the TUC Women's Committee is doing it all for us -the innumerable reports prepared for the Not surprisingly tne South East The speakers invited are not int-