Workers' Control Conference: Latest News

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from Tony Topham During the past week, the conference convenors have learmed that the new Executive Committee of NALSO have agreed to send two official delegates to the Coventry meeting in June, and that a NALSO team is preparing a paper to be submitted to the Student Democracy Seminar. The delegates will be Bernard Reaney, (NALSO's President) and Mike Griffin, of the University of Aston, Birmingham. It is expected that many NALSO branches will ‘be sending their own local delegates as well. Another important paper in course of preparation is from Richard Fletcher, on "Democracy in the Corporate State". It will deal with the problem of control and supervision of top officials, the question of financial control and budgeting, and aims to tackle the practical obstacles which are always brought up against the advocates of workers’ control, Car workers in the Midlands will be convened for a pre-conference discussion towards the end of May, when they will prepare an introductory peper on problems of workers' control in their industry. Further details of this meeting will be announced shortly. Copies of the circular giving details of the Coventry conference, and application forms, are still available from 1, Plantation Drive, Anlaby Park, Hull.