While the Universities are alive with arguments effective work-based organisations. for shop stewards and branch unionists soo that micrstood it was by Towers. had ne ides at all that thre bandred vards directly beneath them aah man an he vertime of the wav ty Almost Setainty, 5301 rotesting. They ought to listen. He MOPE BEAN Rate aliensted in the * ventee it an old demony, tom 1, Conference Carve (seventh)
Fi plans and programme meeting of the Council of the At the last Institute for Workets' Control it was agreed to convenc next National Conference on Workers Control (which will be the seventh in succession) at Sheffield, during the last week end in March 1969.
Arrangeme shich in to be held is ane of the made for t Conference which is to be halls of residence at Sheffield University, and allowance has already been made to cope with a very much larger fumour than before, It is meeting, so that there will be some the considerable problems of organisation. However, it is boped that by appealing to trade deletions carly, il will be possible to cope in their a fairly systematic way with the organisational difficulties.
Among the national trade union speakers who havo already agroed to participate are Hugh Scanlon, Ernie Roberts, and Lawrence Daly the newly elected General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers. Important though this platform is, however, even more important are the various seminar groupings sten during the herkend. Very out their weekend significant progress has been made in the claboration of workers' control strategies for ach industrie s docks, steel, mining, aircrafl, farming an education It is hoped that new industrial will be formed before the Sheffield Toug 'onferenc and it is very likely that the 20 seminars of the last (Nottingham) Conference will, by next March, hase become 30 or even more.
Pupers will be circulated in advance to all who register for the Conference, and all those who with to have their material circulated are invited to submit it to the office of the Instifute for Workers' Control, 91 Goldsmitt Street, Nottingham. This office will also be pleased to enquisies about the Conference The cost of participation depends primaril upon the cost of board and lodging for th wedkend. The cost will be, for full board, t4 accommodation. The cost without heard wil head. inclusive meah ha tan shillions.
The Black Dwarf 27 Jan 1969