Seamen to Back Ken Coates ?

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Following the appeal of 38 MPs for support for the reference back of the Labour Party's NEC Report on its disciplinary invasion of the Nottingham Labour Party, numerous organisations have rallied around. Foremost among the groups which are demanding the reinstatement of Ken Coates and the lifting of the ban on the other Nottingham comrades! right to hold office are a number of leading members of the National Union of Seamen,. A number of Labour Parties are demanding that Miss Sara Barker divulge her 'verdict! on this case, and insisting on the reference back at Conference of the NEC Report on the matter. A Nottingham ETU branch has invited Ken Coates to put his side of the case, after receiving a totally unsatisfactory response from Miss Barker to its enquiries. Queens University Labour Group, Belfast, has asked Ken Coates to become a patron of their club, as a gesture of "support for his stand against the NEC bureaucracy." Some MPs who did not sign the letter in Tribume are none the less concerned about the matter, A letter from Brian Walden, the young Birmingham member who is by no means a man of the left, reads "I find that I never did send a letter ... in regard to your expulsion from the Labour Party. I am against it, not because I agree with your views, but because I dislike expulsions."