H-BOMB BAN
Policy Changes By Unions
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 5. The trade union leader, Mr Frank Cousins and the Socialist anti-bomb legions suffered a new reverse at Eastbourne yesterday when the policy-making committee of the giant Amalgamated Engineering Union threw out a resolution demanding unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. This decision—by leaders of the union whose antibomb motion last year caused the rejection of Labour’s official defence policy at its annual conference—was seen by politicians as a major victory for the In hour leader, Mr Gaitskell. Yesterday’s vote was the third setback this week for the unilateralists in the Labour Party ranks. The annual conference of Shop and Distributive Workers—which has 328,000 votes at the Labour conference—rejected a “ban-the-bomb” resolution. The executive committee of the National Union of Railwaymen this week also decided to recommend its forthcoming annual conference to drop unilateralism and give the union’s 297,000 conference votes to Mr Gaitskell.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 11
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152H-BOMB BAN Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 11
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