ELECTION IN UNION
IN2.P.A -Renter—Copyright > , LONDON. Sept. SO. Leaders of the non-Com-munist group In the Electrical Trades Union claim to have won eight out of the 11 seats on the union's executive council, it was reported today. They baaed the claim on an unofficial asttessment of votes cast in the union'* nation-wide election by most of the 700 branches.
The present executive council which stays in office until January next year, consists of eight Communists or Communist supporters, and three non-Coram unaria.
The result of the election, which end* this week-end will not be officially announced until early in November.
Yesterday the national executive committee of the Labour Party decided to expel the E.T.U. from the purty on the ground that the union was a Communist-
controlled organisation and therefore could not “accept the programme, principles, and policy of the party a* hid down in the Labour Party constitution."
Le«« than four weeks ago the E.T.U. was expeded from the Trades Union Congress because it* leader* refused to accept a three-point ultimatum aiming at cwbing Communist influence.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29633, 2 October 1961, Page 11
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