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Attempt to bring all Croydon out STRIKING CROYDON council workers marched through the shopping centre yesterday. ference off agreed by national trade union officers at York included a statement that a works conference would be held as soon as possible, the stewards insisted that they could not accept that the company could push aside all the references that their members have had in procedure for many months.

It cites five references waiting for attention at works conference level and 39 references outstanding at the works manager and branch levels of procedure.

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TUC still holds back union law opposition A PARALYSIS, which not even Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber has so far succeeded in shaking, grips the leaders of Britain's 10,000,000-strong organized labour movement.

Trade union general secretaries are being advised by the Trades Union Congress to opposę all unofficial action Industrial Relations Bro sea In a letter which yesterday's TUC General Council meeting unanimously agreed, affiliates are strongly advised 'not to support in any way the activities of unofficial bodies who may be arranging conferences or demonstrations or recommending stoppages of work'.

"We're making for unityunity of action', TUC general secretary Victor Feather told journalists later.

Unity of what action?

No date The TUC is organizing a one-day conference on November 12 for executive representatives from all 149 unions in membership 'for the purpose of discussing the campaign'.

It is arranging "a series of regional conferences' the first of which will take place in December and the rest not until next year.

Trades Councils who are already arranging meetings on the Bill are advised not to hold them until early next year.

And there is still no date set for the special congress already decided by the General Council. take place unti probably not This will now mid-March. stration, the 'national demon- Even arranged Albert Hall - capacity only 6,000on January 12 is to involve no stoppage of work.

There is to no march. The 'demonstration' is to be in the evening.

Feather claimed yesterday that there was no discussion at the General Council meeting about the December 8 one-day stoppage-a crushing indictment of the council's so-called 'lefts'.

And when asked if the TUC would in the future consider • PAGE FOUR COL, 7 At a mass meeting afterwards they voted to call out all Croydon council manual workers in support of their claim for 55s an hour.

Stewards undertook to clear this with the three unions concerned by 5 p.m.

The stewards reported that so and ben co here carried out by hazard piles of rubbish and Frost, no grit-