Dustmen tied up strings

Workers Press no. 17, 21 October 1969 · scan page 2

Topics: Post office and public services, Trade union leaders and the TUC

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Workers' Press correspondent THE RETURN to work of the majority of London dustmen must be the source of much relief to the trade union leaders.

They have worked might and main to get their members to accept the national pay offer with productivity strings attached, precisely when decisive leadership on a national scale could have won the £20 basic without strings.

The dustmen know that if it had been left to the union leaders they would have won even less than the 50s.

Meanwhile the strike of 480 Bristol corporation workers, including , 200 dustmen, continues with no sign of developments until Thursday when a mass meeting is due to be Lower-paid workers - take warning!

TUC talk

All the talk by the TUC on how the Prices and Incomes Act was particularly for your benefit is now shown to be a lethese leaders openly assist the employers and the government to keep down wages and introduce speed-up.

The burning issue is alternative leadership.

The dustmen, miners and car workers are only the vanguard of a movement which is now merlig and in which this leadership will be built through the All Trades Unions Alliance.