Basic Rights adopted

'THE DIVIDING line in working-class politics today is between those who are for calling upon the trade union and Labour leaders to force the Tory government to resign and those who, like the Stalinists, fake-lefts and revisionists, want to leave it in parliament for four years, said Socialist Labour League national secretary Gerry Healy at the weekend in Birmingham. SLL national secretary G. Healy Introducing the Charter on Saturday. Seated is conference chairman John Power. TUC plea for steady pay A PLEA that the Tories should maintain the value of workers' wage-packets is to be issued next month by the Trades Union Congress.

The unions' aim at present is to restore 'real pay' to its Opening the second annual conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance, he stressed that the situation in Britain now was 'far more revolutionary than 1926—year of the General Strike.

"The working class is no longer composed of older workers made weary by the First World War and the defeats of the early 1920s.' "Today, the younger generations of workers will fight the Tories to retain what they have won.' level of a year before and ensure it stays there for at least six months, says the TUC's economic committee.

In a paper produced for the National Economic Development Council's January 6 discussion on inflation, the TUC says that British manual workers' take-home pay only went up by just over 1 per cent each year between 1965 and 1969.

The paper says that while price rises in the UK were third highest among member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, wage rises had only been approximately averaging.

Bread van

latest offer SCOTTISH bread delivery drivers are to step up action in support of their f4-a-week pay claim, following rejection of the employers' latest offer at yesterday's mass meeting in Glasgow.

The men threw out by a two-thirds majority an offer of £2 4s .6d to E2. 9s 6d and a working party on pay and conditions.

The Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union, together with Transport and ingredients. from reaching multiple bakeries in Scotland.

The five-week strike has closed six multiple bakeries in the Glasgow area and 4,000 bakery workers have been laid ofi.

Four hundred and eighty delegates accompanied by 200 visitors travelled from all over the country to participate in the conference, which discussed and amended the draft Charter of Basic Rights submitted to it by the ATUA national committee.

Representing almost every industry, they, brought into the lively four-hour discussion the views of the thousands of rank-and-file unionists who have signed and debated the draft Charter on factory floors since the first draft was published five weeks ago.

Contributions proved that the Charter can rapidly become a widely-popular nighting programme.

Comrade Healy warned that 'the nature of the serious changes brought about in the political and economic situation by the coming to power of the Tory government is not universally understood'.

Too mild

'It is wrong, for instance, to describe the Industrial Rélations Bill as a "scabs' charter" -this is far too mild.

"What the Bill sets out to provide is a framework of law around which new clauses, new regulations and orders could be introduced within days which would entirely change the face of the labour "This legislation is directed TAMACT TAB OF FRANCO SPAI BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT MORE than 700 socialist youth and trade unionists marched on the Spanish embassy in London yesterday chanting 'Down with Franco! and 'Free the Burgos 16!' police surrounded the Belgrave Square émbassy and

invasion towards the destruction of the trade union movement, he said.

'It is designed to encourage the union leaders to do the job for the capitalist state; become a kind of "labour front"!

It was designed to introduce the kind of situation which prevailed between the rightwing Labour and trade union leaders and the state in all the countries which eventually went over to fascism in the period before the Second World War, he said.

It would place enormous strains on the shop stewards' movement: drive out of the struggle all those who were unprepared for the dangers contained in the Bill and ought to divide the working lass movement by instillins fear on the shop floor!

'When the Tories attack the unions,' he said, 'it's not just the workers of today they are prosperous sections of town and country behind the regime.

And although a rigid wage policy operates in industry, police and the armed forces recently received a substantial risé.

The Stalinist bureaucracy needs all the reactionary support it can now muster, from the Kremlin's tanks to the Catholic Church.

Refusing shots

For, according to reports coming out of Poland, conscript soldiers are refusing fire on the workers, and police responsible for the deaths of demonstrators have been literally torn apart.

Wavering in the armed forces proves the movement has réached revolutionary proportions.

It is the prospect of the political revolution against the bureaucracy, with the workers and their allies introducing democracy into the state-owned factories and the political life of the whole nation, that now haunts the regime.

The removal of Gomulka, who has yet to speak on the crisis, and his replacement by 'hard-line' Stalinists of the eneral Motione led by is already being rumoured in Warsaw.

Brezhnev

There were also unconfirmed reports that Soviet Party leader Brezhnev into the Polish on Saturday for panic talks with Polish Party and government leaders.

The crisis has only just begun in E Europe; and all the Kremlin maneouvrings and the lies of the British Stalinist 'Morning Star, which Saturday carried the headline •Poland: Life returning to Normal, will not be able to resolve it.