Support the Workers Control Campaign

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Judging from letters and cther ccommmications we have received, the - . Nottingham workers' control conference (to be held on March 30/31 — see last week's issue for full details) is evcking stronp interest. ve are told by one shop steward in Ruislip that his committee is thinkine of organising a coach to go up. We have heard from supporters of The Week in varicus parts cf the ccuntry that they are going to organise delegations to the conference, A preliminary estimate puts the number goin: from London at about 30 - this is not counting a good number of TGWU delepates who will geo straight from their branches. All this is very good but more needs to be done. The main point in involving broad sections of the trade union leadership in the campaign is tc ensure wider and widers sections of union members become interested. It is vital that at every stage of the campaign that fresh people are breupht in. The Week hepes that every reader will energetically and enthusiastically campaipn to get people to the ecnference from their trade union branches, labour Parties, Young Socialist branches, Commmist Party organisations, etc. They shucld explain the relevance of workers' control as an immediate demand in relation to present-day strugple. They should seek to demonstrate thet a fight against redundancy in a factory, with a call for trade union control of hiring and firing, can be turned inte a strurple for workers’ control. A struggle against particular aspects of the incomes policy can merge into a workers! control demand: a notable example being the demand to open the bocks when employers claim that they are unable to afford wage demands. This injection of workers! control demands into every day struggles makes it possible to raise socialist consciousness, There is 4 wealth of material on the question of workers control — of particular importance is the pemphict Participation or Gentrol by Tony Topham and Ken Coates, who,torether with Walter Kendal, Richard Fletcher, Councillor Bill Meade and Peter Smith, are the convencEs of the conference. Books and pamphlets on workers! control can be obtained from Pioneer Book Service or from the organisers of the conference (write Mrs. Margeret