I think (but I could be wrong) that SC branches always had some small level of membership fee and the branch always paid a small affiliation fee to the Centre plus a small amount per membership card issued. AFAIK there were NEVER and charges attached to tickets themselves by the SC.
There was a time that the club used the SC to control who was getting away tickets and this was very much in the interests of the club. Only a proportion of tickets went via this channel though. Max 30% AFAIK. It seems that this was far from being a perfect arrangement and has produced some long standing antagonisms with the SC. No doubt there were abuses within that system but branches were each democratic organisations and some of them took action internally. In one case at least, a fairly high profile anti SC voice originally became disgruntled because his own branch kicked him out democratically - but you never hear him say this of course. Maybe some of these voices were actually the perpetrators of the abuses that they now claim took place but were caught out and dealt with by their members. I'd guess that you would have had to be a member of said branch to really know the ins and outs. It's a long time ago and I wasn't personally directly involved except for obtaining away tickets via the London branch SC and later the West Midlands branch. For that reason, my understanding of these ancient issues is a long way from being reliable. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
