expubion. as a warning for the next one employers oftensive. supervisory union, ASTMS, at Eastbourne last week, showed the dangers facing the trade unions from leaders" who would rather boast and manoeuvre than fight. Though resolutions were passed declaring "total opposition" to the industrial Relations Act and state control of wages, the Executive successtully foiled a motion to forbid co-operation in the legal machinery of the Act. Union chief Clive Jenkins, fresh from revelations of his dealings in council property, pleaded for a mandate to fight "realistically' for the best interests' of the members in the NIRC. Hand in hand with this touching concern for the rank-and-file went the Executive majority's drive to get a firmer grip on the union machine. Their blatantly anti-democratic move to prevent branches from amending Executive-proposed rule changes was thrown out, but they succeeded in bringing in an altered procedure for appeals against The conceited and elitist attitudes of the Jenkins leadership - that 'we are the geese who lay the golden eggs" - become increasing ly dangerous in face of a Government bent on striking blows at the gains of all trade unions. ASTMS branches must take this conference and give full attention to selecting resolutions, delegates and an Executive which will make it the starting point for a serious fight apainst the the jobs of our members, But the overall
Red Weekly1973Red Weekly No. 4, 25 May 1973
Jenkins' golden goose
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