International Marxist Group Archive

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Steel Rebels Under Fire

The Week Vol. 3, No. 21, 27 May 1965 · p. 4 of the scan · 239 words

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Alec Acheson from Leicester reports: At the end of the Leicestershire Miners! annual conference, a resolution submitted by the delegate from Snibston colliery threatening to withdraw support from Mr. Woodrow Wyatt unless he supported the Government on steel nationalisation, was carried unanimously, A young miner from Snibston, Ken Smith, moved the resolution; he said: "That this renegaie is a Labour M.P. is very much due to the support and assistance of the Leicestershire miners...the people who voted for him were all aware that the Labour Party programme included the nationalisation of steel..e"

Meanwhile the Coalville Labour Party have petitioned the Bosworth CLP to ask the. management committee to seek permission from Transport House to adopt another Labour candidate. Mr. John Hollick, president of the CLP and a member of the executive of Coalville Labour Party said, "I can speak as a miner. I mix with miners altĀ® and I know that they have had enough of Woodrow Wyatt and would be glad to see the back of him,"

Tom Nicholls reports: An emergency resolution from Labour Party members in Abertillery was passed by the annual meeting of the Welsh Council of Labour, calling upon Mr. Desmond Donnelly to accept fully the Government's policy on steel nationalisation or to resign his seate The meeting of the Council was attended by 200 delegates from all over Wales, The resolution has deen referred to the Parliamentary Labour Party and the National Executives.

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