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as a result, wide interest was aroused in the unions and the Co-operative evemgn, are a second seminar was held in London with support from the London aa iva Society for some of its proceedings. By this time, early in 1965, Latour Goverrmment had been ret red, and supporters of The Week-Vod ce campaign d eucborated a number of specific proposals for democratic advance in industry,
“ uLarly in the public sector. Following a call by Ernie Roberts, Assistant -. ral Secretary of the AEU, in the Voice, a seminar of steel workers based on r2 ineffield area worked out a detailed plan for the democratic administration of the about-te-e nationalised Steel industry, Study groups in cull considered tne democratisstion of the docks and public transport. A Nuskin College group hed put forward plans for the iiining Industry, and the Derbyshire Miners had texen the whole question forward with the publication, in 1964, of their ‘Plan for the Miners'. The London Conference had already, therefore, reached a point at which it had a whole number of detailed schemes to study, and it wes found mec essary to convene yet another national gathering to complete the examination of theses This was held in Manchester in mid-1965. already the movement was attracting considerahle support from the unions. Farticularly in the T&GWU and among the Foundreymen, discussion flared up into we columns of union journals, and then spread over into the socialist press t large. By the beginning of 1966 the whole campaign was beginning to rescn ne stage at wnich it was embracing the official institutions of the movement. ne Hull dockers elaborated their detailed programme into an 'Anti-Devlin nreport', w.icr aroused very considerazle discussion among portworkers all over the cuntry, and which set a very useful framework in which to consider the proposals of an Official Labour Party commission, which, under the pressures generated in vhe carpaign, had put forward a scheme for nationalisation with 'workers' partpation'. The proposals of the Sheffield seminar were taken over, lock, tock and barrel, by the craftemen's committee of the Steel Unions, and put orward for consideration as their official recommendations. The Hull busmen
published a pamphlet in which: they set out 'Four Steps for Progress’ which ractec a widespread audience all over the country.
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