The Communist Party has over 3,000 members in the Glasgow area -an eighth of its entire membership. Whar that means in terms of its industrial base can be seen by scanning the delegate lists of the LCDTU, where it is represented by delegates from factor les, ship yards and building sites show ing a strong Party base and solid grip on leadership.
However one thing undermines this impressive facade. The line of the party these trilitants belong to is one which subordinates itself to the interests of the left bureaucrats in order to seal the alliance. And that means that the work and activities of CP memhers are tied to the realisation of these goals.
The stronger the base becomes, the more the real fruits of that line become evident. The Glasgow City CP has within its ranks some 40 trade union bureaucrats who exercise a weight and control in the Party out of all proportion to their numbers. Indeed, such is their str ength that it is possible for men like Tommy Mclurk, one of the sell-out merchants of the 1972 builders strike, to move over to alliance with them as he sees the sand slip from under the teet of the incompetent right-wing hacks of CATT in Glas ERRAND BOY This layer of the huresucracy ext ends from heavyweights like Janses Milne, assistant Gencral Secretiry of meetine of all shop stewards is nou more vitai than ever. This is the cly way that the support of the local working class movement will be won, against the scabbing of their bureaucratic misleaders in their last-ditch defence of the renants of the social CORLECT It is urpent that mass meetings take place in all workplaces to budd such a meeting and win support fot united strike action to get the troops out and win the strikes. At the sure time we nast huild mass picketsat thi incinerators and dumps to defend the strikes and break Labour's seabging.