AS IN BALDWIN'S DAY TUC ON ITS KNEES BEFORE HEATH

Workers Press no. 1000, 17 February 1973 · scan page 2

Topics: Trade union leaders and the TUC, Tory government, Miners

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clear: state be workers will have the opportunity to argue their case, and the machinery will exist to examine it and consider its merits' gress to sell out Heath's ultimatum is and accept Phase accept the laws of the lation. pay legislation or The capitulation on March smashed.

5 conforms entirely to a All workers' eyes are now long list of betrayals by the turned to March 5, the day trade union leaders since the of the special TUC Congress.

But March 5 will be May 12, Tories came to power: 1926, in another form. • On March 18, 1971, the Fehind a smokescreen of infamous special Croydon words and a voluminous Congress opened the door draft document, the TUC is for the Industrial Relations settino readu to uce the Con- Bill to become law.

man ams son ns innar Miners' union chief some of the left de Gormley (right) has put enma ThA Lawrence Daly, on the spot through his call for a General Strike to force a General Election. In reality he is preparing the way for a gross betrayal at the March 5 TUC Congress. by default Two legis• Only a few weeks before, the same TUC had left the postmen isolated and at the mercy of the Tory govern• The TUC decision not to co-operate with the Act and its court was violated last year when unions were allowed to attend the court and pay its fines. • When the Housing Finance Bill was before parliament, the TUC consistently retreated from organizing any form of struggle with the Labour Party against this broadside attack on council housing and the wage packets of workers. • Trade union-sponsored MPs were permitted to vote time and again with the Tories in favour of Common Market entry. • And despite the TUEs overwhelming vote against the EEC and its institutions at Brighton last September, Feather has become first president of the new Common Market trade union confederation.

Into this situation Mr Joe Gormley, miners • president, has iniected come "blunt-talking'.

Gormley is a notorious right winger.

He has said that the situation facing the trade unions is either a General Strike or nothing.

His statement is aimed directly at the Stalinists and 'lefts' like Lawrence Daly on his own executive as well as the TUC.

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BRITAIN'S 220,000 hospital anclilary workers will start national industrial action from March 1.

Leaders of their unions decided yesterday to stage selective strikes, ban overtime, work to rule and to withdraw co-operation. They said the new pay offer - which fell within the Tories' pay guidelines - was 'completely unacceptable'.

The new offer was 4p