'Unite against pay laws'- Sheffield stewards' motion

Workers Press no. 1039, 4 April 1973 · scan page 13

Topics: Engineering, Trade union leaders and the TUC, Socialist Labour League and the WRP

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of wages ... in return for concessions.

But secondly, and more important, there is no real contradiction between the two faces of Hugh Scanion.

Even as his editorial was being composed, the TUC's Finance and General Purposes Committee, of which he is a member, was refusing yet again to take action on the hospital workers' behalf.

There have been four top-level meetings of TUC leaders since the special Congress decision to co-ordinate action in support of individual unions in struggle against the pay laws. Not once has Scanlon so far suggested that strikes be called in the hospital workers' support.

It is now four weeks since the special Congress and five weeks He has an idea of what is required in terms of strike action, and he knows what dire consequences will follow if the movement fails to meet the challenge. But then he says that he will only do what everyone else is doing.

'LEFT' TALK

'Rightly or wrongly, we have to work within the unified policy as laid down (by special Congress), he says.

And, of course, they are not even doing that. It is just more 'left' talk from Scanlon.

Not only is Scanion not carrying out what he claims to be necessary, he is not even carrying out the minimum of activity which he claims TUC policy has obliged upon him. STEWARDS at a Sheffield engineering works have asked the district committees of local union branches to form a committee to unite all workers against the government's pay laws.

call comes from the joint shop committee at SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE A IEETING Doncasters, Sheffield, one of big local engineering works.

: They want the committee to campaign for the TUC to call a General Strike to force the Tories out of office and return a Labour government pledged to repeal all anti-trade union laws and committed to socialist policies.

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