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support from the Trade Union Congress for their three main demands.

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not clear on next move AT a press conference yesterday afternoon at Congress House in London it appeared that TUC leaders vere hoping that the man gement's £3 offer would b put on to the basic wage. When General Secretary Mr Feather was told by reporters informally that the Pilkington men had voted to stay out, he said that he lad not heard this news and gave no indication of any further moves by the TUC.

strike rejected DELEGATES representing Britain's police overwhelmingly defeated a proposal for the right to strike yesterday.

At the Police Federation's annual conference in Llandudno, they were urged to reorganize themselves as a free staff association indépendent of the Home Office with the right of industrial action.

'Parliament will never grant us this, said conference chairman, Mr Reg Gale, urging delegates to vote against the proposals.

'We would achieve a great lowering the respect, esteem and affection in which we are held by a great majority of the public' Consistent The police are at least consistent in their attitude to industrial action.

While denying themselves the right to strike they are increasingly used against workers who exercise that right.

Their activities at St Helens are certainly not winning them respect, esteem and affection' from the S Lancashire workers. A meeting of the TUC's General Council, announced strike committee chairman Gerry Caughey, after a telephone conversation with Congress secretary Victor Feather, agreed that it would back their demands for:

• Reinstatement of 28 Pilkington workers dismissed from its Pontypool factory.

• Placing of Pilkington's £3 interim wage offer on the St Helens workers' basic rate and negotiation for the remainder of their £10 original claim.

• No victimization of any St Helens' striker.

However, such backing would only come, said strike committee treasurer John Potter later, following a return to work.

A committee statement following a lunchtime meeting insisted that there could be no return without a concrete offer and laid the blame for the trouble which had flared up on picket lines over the past few days jointly on the Pilkington management and the General and Municipal Workers' Union. It declared that strike committee répresentatives would be meeting Feather in London in the next few days to discuss the issues raised by the No return come up commenced since reace ery commented strike leader Gerry Caughey.

Already many strikers are beginning to question the purpose of the TUC's intervention in this dispute.

There is no doubt that top union bureaucrats are now seriously concerned at the prospect of the strike continuing close to the date of the General Election and of a mass break in St Helens from the G&MWU.

It is significant that rather than send a direct representative from Congress House to today's meeting, Feather should, as Caughey reported at a press conference this afternoon, urge him (Caughey) before this morning's mass meeting to 'test the temperature and come and make another phone call'.

Awaiting call The strike committee was this afternoon waiting for a further phone call from Feather to make arrangements for their discussions with TUC officials.

Meanwhile many of the pickets remanded after last night's special court hearing of charges arising from clashes outside factory gates still face the prospect of vicious sentences on the lines of those already handed out by magistrates to those arrested on Monday.

Support of a determined nature from trade unionists throughout Merseyside and S Lancashire still remains an urgent question if the WORKERS CALLS FOR the reintroduction of the gallows and for more powers to deal with demonstrators received an enthusiastic reception at the Police Federation's heavily pro-Tory Llandudno conference yesterday.

Like the 'hang 'em and flog 'em' brigade at last week's Scottish Tory conference, the police greeted these calls with considerable glee.

They were delighted when their chairman attacked the 'vociferous minority who want independent investigation of complaints against the The 1,000-strong conference greeted Home Secretary James Callaghan with marked hostility, despite his record as a former parliamentary advisor to the Police Federation and his repuation as the policeman's friend'.

In return for undertaking the gruelling work of strikebreaking and policing demonstrations, the Federation demanded Steep pay rises for its members.

Behind the conference's witch-hunt against demonstrators and the attempts to keep the hangmen off the dole is the urgent desire of the Tory leaders to hit out at the organized working class and its trade unions.

They are mobilizing all the forces of reation to this end.

After the Scottish Tory conference, there cannot be the slightest doubt that Heath is completely at one with Enoch Workers at the Rolls-Royce plant in Willesden, £20 million loan means an stirs Powell and his National Front followers on the crucial election issue of 'law and order'.

The Tory election strategy is clearer than ever before.

Press hounding of militant 60 percent in profits. trade unionists is to go handwill Beat the ce workers in-hand with attempts to whip the middle-class into line against demonstrations and enormously strengthen the powers of the police.

The Labour leaders have done nothing to combat this ction i reactionary agitation.

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