[+ MARY ANN TODD ¡tuation in an ostensibly…]

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+ MARY ANN TODD ¡tuation in an ostensibly which no officials are ALAN HUGHES describes if the AUEW - a formally nion tightly controlled by starting off as an ointed) Divisional Offin Newcastle. le is 38 years old -ng him, under present 5, a clear run of 27 is as leader of one of the try's biggest unions. is new deputy, replacBernard Dix, is the illy unknown and unled Tom Sawyer from Northern Division. He is in his late 30s and ¡expect a long career of worry about relion Docility 'E members have no in the selection of any heir officials, all of n are appointed over : heads, and who are : often sustained on absis of dormant or ally active branches h in turn are dominatiy secretaries whose ity and privileged ion is secured through commission payments a almost equivalent to ond salary). in losers in this sete of course rank and NUPE members -rularly women workers little experience of I struggles and often volated in small sector individual works on these forces and he fight for a prome of demands to the needs of the rank le as a whole that the re for democracy in , must be based. buts: Boyd and WILLIAM BOOTH examines the rise of a privileged, conservative layer of leader ship in the labour movement.