Workers Press no. 347

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Govt and CBI launch What we A campaign think We must not to cut hesitate

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BY THE EDITOR

six months. government has started a well- Every

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engaged in building up. prepared mass media campaign to condition against unemployment unions workers to accept wage-cutting, and anti-union laws as their only salvation.

This is the meaning union organizations. New of the dire warnings of relentlessly attacking hope Thin union purpose of the Mr organization Anthony Barber future. and the Confederation the contrary, these "con- today recruit of British Industry at the National Economic alas wages, and Powel Development Council for defends the ne Torme meeting on Wednesday - the wage terest: about Britain being on attes waits 'suicidal course' un- to the extra- 'shifts Keynes less inflation' parliamentary plate 'wage was checked. heret wages and aare. fundamental isa Fenden ent identala Stokes e be- British -

BY JOHN SPENCER

a division a 8197 in 1969 occurred over the past monthsaluatior adopt New Deal' policies the trigger mechan class. middle ices, highe to cope with the grow- US unemployment ing profits, and economic recession. paramount Tines, January 7, 1S70,; The along esse am et the NEDe went atives The to rait wokers mitan Stunted struggle in which tremorsy high in added the e economic growte in Atmand terest Testablishe indepe end. I thin to con- capitalist paria so destroy the work.

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: NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JANUARY 8, 1971 • NUMBER 347

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BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

THE OIL tanker drivers' strike snowballed yesterday when 500 Esso men and 50 Mobil drivers walked out over the use of 'cheap labour' by outside distributors.

The action - taken against advice has affected union petrol supplies to 2,000 Scottish gar- ages in London and the Home Counties. At Heathrow and Gatwick, breadmen refuelling threat- aircraft is ened. return Talks Pickets at depots throughout the London SCOTTISH breadvan drivers area were very suspicious handling ot press voted to call off their bitter of their dispute, following the eight-week strike yesterday bitter experience of the power workers. after union officials persuaded They stressed that hospitals, them to accept the employers' homes, old peoples' fire and original offer. ambulance stations were all being supplied. They returned with a wage The strike flared on Wed- increase of between £2 4s nesday after five months' of and £2 9s 6d pending negotia- the talks aimed at closing original tions on their of gap between the wages claim. drivers employed by the At yesterday's meeting over oil and major companies a quarter of the men voted those working for outside dis- against the officials' recom- tributors. Pickets at Shell's Fulham mendation. depot told us: We want them Scottish Commercial The same basic money up to the Motormens' Union assistant as us'-£28 5s. general secretary Peter Talbot Tanker drivers fear their said the Scottish TUC would work may be transferred to negotiations with re-open distributors lower payıng employers on working hours, wages. overtime rates and produc- So far, 19 distributors have tivity deals. paid the extra money to bring The men earn a basic £15 T&GWU drivers their up to wage. the level paid by the oil com- panies. Seven are still holding out. About 1,500 drivers are on our involved in the strike, which affects all major oil companies.

Shell Mex-BP drivers at two it workers terminals-Walton-on-Thames and Northfleet-voted yester- day afternoon to return to work. ized without compensation under workers' control. Coventry 2) The right to strike and organize. Jan 12 meeting 3) The right of the work- ing class to retain the rains they have made. 250-STRONG meeting of Coventry and 4) The right to fair prices convenors stewards urged rank- for our necessities. and-file members to attend a 5) The right to high wel- city-centre meeting at noon fare benefits and decent Tuesday against the next housing at rea- Tories' anti-union Bill. sonable See Late News. rents. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d (2}p) lary Fund 14 5s Od all the

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BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

T WAS shattered when Batchelors offered £3,000 to end the strike? This was the headline of an 'exclusive' state- ment to the Tory Sheffield 'Star' on Wednesday by Terry Devey, the ex-convenor who accepted the pay-off.

Devey's statement is no doubt in- tended to justify his own conduct and Hire-and- to place all the blame on other leading Communist Party members. fire threat But he succeeds only in confirming that the whole sequence of events was the direct consequence policies Tine sparks unions, and it was carried through by leading CP members.

DEP

docks row Dever new the officials had been called in, com- the crita mittee had long meeting to consider all the possible

BY DAVID MAUDE

implies that the

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was called in above the heads the strike committee. HIRE-and-fire discipline will George

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full-time official and loe repeating port- nOW ga sepen tatements that it was he workers employers' who thAT

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called in the DEP. of the a ste coent isse issued by three members confirms this. They battle rank- and mayor dockers says Bened

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aske know oficials to *Mr Caborn inter- without

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knowledge. would have opposed the had ployers' demand for powers to sack workers they are нел. thought He stare WaS 901e we would torce the irm to take Jerry ever will certainly strengthen erseyside deter- resist Phase

FIRST NAIL

terms preposed o empovers вете So the first nail is firmly driven in.

of union attende ton chiefs nationally, however, is This by no means so certain. pay-off settlement, inspired government ae barament. m asso tite accord. No attack' Tory anti-union laws, was initiated ance Witt union official leading by his running A London calmed employers the

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pokesman without nforming, let consulting, call implied i strike. mat me severance Yesterday's Closure Balletic Devey, 'reply' dock labour scheme. The employers' argument is stence Their industrial that a ruling compul- bluster organizer Bert Ramelson, not erase the question: London you aborn 1 dockers to unfit should George describe by Corby the CP denounced the National Dock Board for their own 20015 settlement as a camitulation sakes, could be done steel chiefs THe same forces winch are ne without interfering with the bind the industrial Relations Bill. It is i Will to coate tin what about Caborn's however, be stud, be.

CONICAL

Trades m dr

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

which Ocean Em- cause make clear Dovers Chairman Dermot lewitt chose to pre OVER 12,000 Steel Corpora- that Caborn's capitulation was sent his Wednesday night call tion the CP's canitulation. workers at orDy were for "some form of compulsory they may Toil vestercau that all face the dole if they oppose

ADVICE

productivity deal stage We return to Devey's "Discipline' strikes. account: Year workers in the Cor my seel and a New St rodee more of on 1s Bracken, secretary first the Sheffield Communist Party, Three montne Two in London, Jewitt claime: fine works and its associated and discharge shoneccent ore quarries, Mr W. H. Craw- that shiploading the strike the ford, resident lirecto says speeds have committee but later Howard works that entire and 3e 27 cent respectively. may

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Communist Party close if costs cut Some 67- are not and working shift were being efficiency hour should refuse the that Curing the comina vear. he card monev at all costs This threat of mass unem- He insisted that no form of ployment key

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the negotiations stage productivity and job-

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

Carhy-Wide the Productivity Programme.

DEADLOCK

Talks on the scheme, which have taken consultants Urwick fry caven months to comniete works in now deadlock 2,100 craftsmen guaranteed 33$ per cent pay increase staggered years. over ore Mecat, Corby three dis- Amal- secretary the gamated Union on no account would mem- bers in the works stee present thA torm *In the deal they are posing the breakdown demarcatior labour. at this time they are not especiall! nrenared rise in our antee ant rates. he are intimidated either with the added spokesman for the Cor- that noration said vesterday tHAT manew tha new with tho programme, involves structure, waste must make Corby more settled. efficient reduce and casts Wa fool that if thic ie done there will be more money Name far the work force and more money for the tax payer, Address said the spokesman.

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CESAR LORENZO sets out to explain the para- doxes of anarchism in Spain: why on November 4, 1936 did the CNT (the anarchist trade union federation), which was apparently so opposed to bourgeois a bourgeon politics, join government and why did they envis- age from 1937 the need for a political party? With the possible entry of Spain into the Common Market, he sees room for an anarchist movement, pledged to defend the dignity of the worker, provided that it learns from its experience need for the a positive approach to politics ... of a reformist variety. These conclusions are the real fruits of anarchism's rejection of the scientific analysis of the crisis of capitalism and the * revolu- tionary role of the working class.

The Spanish working class has had Its trade unions destroyed - in 1874, when military coup put an end to the Catalan the Civil War of 1936-1939.

insurrections, in In 1870s the international capitalism was expanding and the working class was small in Spain: in the Civil War, capitalism

WON

in absolute crisis, but Stalinism dominated the international working class. In both cases, the anarchists acted empirically, trade union militancy as a pressure on bourgeois politicians, even though workers wanted many anarchist revolution. In May, 1936, three months controlled the most before they industrial important sectors Spain, Lorenzo correctly describes the confusion of the

CNT:

"The men of the CNT were to sit on to the whining hass appo at least become the great protagonists of the drama They had no plan power. This clarity in of struggle, orientation, confusion was 11U clear philosophy, views apparent in the early days of no on what should or should be anarchism in Spain. not done in a revolutionary situation After the Liberal Revolution of When, six months later, they 1868 had failed to give workers entered a bourgeois government, the freedom and and peasants they showed they were clear wages they had hoped for, there on Seattle unemployed queue for food stamps LAST WEEK'S Seattle trial airliner threatens a further 5,000 jobs. of the Weathermen seven Boeing has already sold one factory, closed another and had a fitting backdrop in reduced output of jumbo jets the city's long dole queues from seven and a half to five a month. -the longest in any major So Seattle's unemployed have city. include skilled come to many Seattle's workers face a grim technicians and engineers who hit- unlikely to find comparable winter with unemployment ting a 10.9 percent high- -nearly employment. double the national 5.8 per cent One took work at Christmas rate. as Santa Claus in department More than 71,500 are unem- store. He was lucky to get even ployed out of the area's 1,400,000 the THaT out ten applicants. population. for the job. Seattle's depression can be Every job vacancy brings hun- attributed to cut-back's the dreds of men desperate for work.

boom Boeing company which in 280 for 20 men took exams 10 per times employed nearly police vacancies. cent of the region's labour.

The Unemployment Compensa- Caught in the aero-space industry Boeing's labour Services have had crash, tion to lake office has been halved over the over more space to cope force with the dole queues which begin past two years to just over before 8 a.m. 40,000 at present. And by The darkening cloud over the March another 10,000 are expected to swell the ranks.

future of Boeing's supersonic THE STATE of health care As the Tories in Britain pre- pare to introduce health charges, has sunk so low, one senator timely look of the absence of state said recently, it threatens eflects health insurance and operation our vitality as a nation'.

for profit across the Atlantic.

For the richest metropolitan US shows that experience country in the world, the US does private insurance schemes cannot do too well in the inter- state scheme, replace national tables: 13th in infant for the othes 1968 us health mortality; 7th in the proportion 1968 bill only a third was paid by in the life insurance companies. expectancy males. The or their families patients Congress will soon be grappling paid the rest. with a plethora of proposals for The £28 daily cost for tackling the near-chaotic state of patient's hospital care throws the health services. crippling burden on to workers There is the widest agreement who need treatment there.

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Name Address Les Anarchistes Espagnols et le Pouvoir 1868-1969 by CESAR M. LORENZO Collections Esprit, 28 NF

REVIEW

BY

PETER

BUSH

THE SPANISI

CIVIL WAR

Barcelona after fascist CNT leader raids. Garcia Ollver. the Republican towaras trade InlO and participated movement un pre- were able to get this and completely revolutionary Republican juntas. nared for considerable influence atomized the struggle: anarchists led this i nese deteats the workers' movement ideas and decimation orean- Bakunin. 'Paris izations and the saw i workers emergence O1 d because they ter- communes estabusnea in severd.

allarcils alls although until towns in soutnern spain, and many strikes Darcelona wich again being constructed. nad, of course, liquidated them Indiana asking for he washington state legisa- ture will nave to vote on extena- tedera ald towaras a scneme for Ing unempioyment benen civilans to be pala lor monitor rumours lousanus 39-week limit. The seven Weathermen faction of Stud Society in down no operate best in areas wner unemployed nev nad livea ior yeal Director an indiana's CrimiM!

The VICIOuS 'contempt' William asked INDIANA'S law - and - order lobby have come up with a 'That's simple Dut au - une - more wial it could sinister plan, worthy of their might le. But not De White House mentors. long as we're not doing anything have to live in constant seisal billonsequent monstrous RESPONSIBILITY for the combustion che losin coal dus Swo-thirds Novembe revealed five infringements of the deaths of 38 Kentucky miners comes below £1,250 cannot afford in last week's pit explosion just of in aki just thai is to be laid at the doors of

TOI

hopsita per and mine- the government octors. was chole das of the san ear dental insurance. owniels. both have blocked Muners in many states struck Safely Ac last year in an attempt to get tne desuture rudimentary a provide th slandaras Private insurance witnesses said when the into practice. Satety Act pl rich schemes pickings. Finlay Coal company's mine oppo- concerted $12,500m ploded, a coua smoke and so this one meet had proased.

dus toas big as a mine hole roared to slash covering nearby trees with debris.

…ne bureau cot Mines alreadt and The explosion has only a fraction of the neces was caused by pockets of the operators.

a blasting opération leading sary inspection stan ana nas long Mealcares daministralive cosi > pel millions coverage hospital treatment. So doctors send their patiénts nere wnen treatment al nome ol towards meeting only the cost o calastropnic miness indicate it will be tar by United Auto Workers Unio wot all beers series resid US resident charges to patients. tae paid dacty Rescue workers deliver bodies from the Finley mine, Kentucky In 1910 the CNT was formed and grew rapidly compared with 1 the reformist union the

UGT,

the trade union of the arm Spanish Social Democratic Party which had its origins in the fight Marx and Engels against was Bakunin, but was now a bureau- cratized party of the Second International.

(CNT:

1915. and the we shouldn't have to wrong, worry!' Later realizing this reassurance ing would have precisely the oppo- intended, site effect that to Greeman retracted his admission claiming he had been 'talking off the top of my head'. In the Indiana city Fort Wayne the scheme is already under way with 12 youths being hired by police at £l Is an hour 'to attend gatherings'. The state police chief indicated the nature of the monitors' work.

Although they would not be involved in 'political harassment' (provocations), he said, they were to eavesdrop on 'subversive' con- versations. been suspected of allowing mine- to proceed with few owners restraints. The extremely corrupt miners' union leadership under president "Tony' Boyle negotiated a con- tract outlawing strikes | over safety questions! Union leaders have a direct interest in boosting production inevitably at the of expense safety. each ton of coal mined For employers pay 40 cents into the union's pension fund which is used as an open till by officials.

Union chiefs, politicians and pit owners-all' will be brought to the bar by the working class for their crimes against the miners. Friday January 8, 1971 15,000; 1918. 345,000; 1920. Stalinists for fear of losing Soviet million; the

UGT:

1915. arms. anarchists' 100,000; 1919. 150,000.) Despite constant This expansion based criticism of Stalinism as respon- was on the wages movement during the sible for the Franco victory, they First World War shared, and still share, Stalinism's when there Spanish fear of the independent move- was a boom in tne of the working class, and ment its love of gradualism and Despite sympathy in the ranks reformism. and sections of the leadership for After the Civil War, with all Bolshevik Revolution, the the debate proceeding on whether leadership opposed the construc- the CNT needed its own party or tion of a revolutionary party.

Their strikes in 1917 were not, the degeneration continued: put at the disposal of such dubious at one moment they made agree- bourgeois with the Royalists for politicians as Lerroux workers to give up the right to Cambo, who called for a period of Republic. strike during the Long before 1937 national reconstruction under a their anarchist principles were confined constitutional monarchy after the disappearance of Franco; at the to the conference room. Lorenzo's complaint next, they attempted to reform is that, although a national political fascism from within. force, they had no political strategy. In fact, their strategy occupy. themselves with problems day-to-day and leave politics to the bourgeoisie.

When in July 1936 they con- of Catalonia, trolled the whole the CNT decided to leave the bourgeois state intact and form the left to rule alliance of behind this facade. The CNT leadership was very conscious of what was at stake: stated there was of a risk installing dictatorship against middle and class the of not being followed peasantry, in the rest of Spain and of meet- the hostility of international capital. So when workers and peasants had set up workers' councils and had initiated period of dual power, the CNT leadership con- Bakunin sciously turned this movement from away the dictatorship of We can draw one lesson from proletariat to an opportunist collaboration the Lorenzo's book: if the CNT had with bour- constructed a party, it could only geoisie. Garcia Oliver put have reflected its own reformism As August 1936: 'Either and opportunism and opposition we col- laborate to Bolshevism. or we impose our dictatorship. In the struggles of the Spanish prepared Thus, they their working class to build their entry into the Popular Front and independent organizations their alliance with the Stalinists.

Fourth again, section of the This opportunism again expressed International must be built for itself when the CNT refused to the the of Spanish defend the POUM • against the Revolution.

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Friday January 8, 1971 Jeok Gela examines the effects the Tory Industrial Relations Bill would ara, on craft uniona such as the soolaty of unmographic Artlets, ere, Engravers and Procese Workera (BLADE). A CIRCULAR to mem- government calls 'an unfair in- dustrial action'. bers from the general Any

SLADE

Society itself secretary of the Society Chapel, the Society or of Lithographic Artists, would be acting illegally in trying to keep out non-unionists if the Designers, Engravers and government's Bill is passed.

Process Workers They could be subjected to a (SLADE) underlines how court order for bringing 'unfair' the government's either the man or the pro- employer and would be liable to posed Industrial Rela- punitive damages or even prison.

tions Bill would prac- tically destroy a Action craft union such as this. Mr Knapp goes on to explain how the bargaining power of the Craft categories and and would members umon apprenticeships would cease disappear: to have any meaning. The 'You, Society member; as will not necessarily be able any Mr L. Knapp, secretary, longer to effectively influence points out: working condi- your wages tions, bargain for even 'Your employer will be able to them. employ any person he chooses to "The decisions as to who shall employ, provided only that he is negotiate and determine your satisfied he can do the job. Camera conditions of employment can be planning, operating, taken over by the Commission of powderless etching, re-touching Industrial Relations, which is one —you name the job (or part of a of the official state agencies given job) and the employer can engage anyone to do it. enormous power under the new Bill. 'And he will not have to be a 'It will only need an employer Society member member • ог а Your or a group of workers to initiate of other any union. Ann- such an action. The be able do this Commission ployer will to bargaining can recommend one regardless of members who any "agent" for each bargaining perate for employment and unemployed des- may "unit", the bargaining unit being specified group the of workers Any attempt to keep out such and conditions are whose wares to be covered.' a non-unionist would be what the Weaker firms will drive against wages BRITISH industry is facing 1971 This the pundits, money, say mood of unbroken gloom. was fuel for further wage in giant firm recorded increases and promoted laxity on Nearly every managements faced drastic downturn in fortunes the part of last year and expectations have with strikes: hence inflation wenT been further depressed by the rocketing on. slump in British-Leyland profits A new crisis is expected by the from £40m to £4m. Treasury in the spring when the The British will be Confederation of pressure again on the Industry Bank predicts to relax

PTON

times ahead and has warned it supply. National the government and the But this time the camp of the Economic Development Council hard will soon be massive swollen that there annoney with fresh allies (not least Enoch bankruptcies both big among Powell) will better preparéd be and large concerns some- and the Bank may be forced to thing is done to stop wages rising.

stand firm

NEDC

After Wednesday's If it does, a number of com- debate on cost inflation, Sir Fred will panies go to the wall. Catherwood, director general of the Economic Development Office Firms in the home engineer- CBI had said the given notice ing market are expected to have of 'acute the part anxiety' Con particularly thin time; home of many of their members. machine tool orders for are, example, particularly low at ebb and results for the final Eroding assets of 1970 likely quarter are to than show results even worse said Catherwood, the 12 per cent drop recorded in "Many firms.' their 'are eroding assets to pay the preceding three months.

higher dividends and wages. Shipbuilding This too will of fies means that the possibilities casualties and robbed on which future for investment airbus growth depends are being contracts the aerospace Con- eroded.' neust can on countr orde for survival he said, had Average pay rises, risen from cent in 1969 per Hawkish to more than 1l percent by the end of 1970. The well may Government In the last two swing over to a hawkish years many posi- firms had been buying industrial and tion on money supply add this peace by conceding wage claims. to its it plans As a résult many had been to deploy against the with and threatened bankruptcy working class. had mounted the Such a policy for industry will of England to soften Bank its be an ordeal by fire, but for the tight money policy. Heath administration the lure The Bank did this in the three of the is eventual over- goal months prior to the Tune elec- mass unemployment powering tion when it boosted the and the final solution™ to the rate of money SUDDy to the exorbi- power of the organized work- tant annual 17 per cent level. ing class.

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particular threat condition, of the employees unions themselves or their the unions. including those such menroers. The NIRC could decide, with- tis dae Nationai Become thee ithead, ency shop? anyone, is ever more out have consult Indus- of industrial rela- that the state situation LOnS reoured investigation by the CIR.

Commission wold tien recommendatoo Court (another woma nave bower new state bodies to be set up) to That conduct a secret ballot. Will be The union gaining the majority and working ditions posed, irrespective of what trade ballot would then diete regardiess of tee sitatso situation in this the and responsible for wages Brixton garage busman Len Scholey (woaring and colleagues talk to a Workers Press reporter MANY rank-and-file London busmen are becoming furious with their leaders' obstruction of the fight against the Tories.

The fruits of this obstructive policy were repeated at a busmen's delegate conference on Wednesday night.

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strike d ion of December strike the disgust who conte said 00D men Jones, was and stand un tomorrow against 15: Se told furious about this. port and General. real Two

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castrate on the by ment against. the Tomac that pretext more 'understand. ing' is necessary. decicio. Sealise cosmetics Trade unions in the the Tag execu- called one Price decay Communism and syndicalism. outside working hours And a non Availabla pram High St. SWA. 58 (postinc.)

186A Puthicatione. neans of crushing any independ the action or tne working cla the Torrest smoothing path. According to Mr Knapp, this Under the Tory Act, however, that 'the kind of plant anyone taking sympathetic action workers bargaining that have elsewhere who beer are we litho, process, "likely' be engaged upon in to committing houses, and gravure, and news 'unfair industrial action' would the policies adopted by you and themselves be acting illegally.

the rest of the members, could be made illegal by decision of the

NIRC.

'In the case of the litho situa- also tion. for instance, they could Moreover, be legally impose procedure for illegal to induce, to negotiating wages and conditions.

induce, anybor to Certainly any policy on a house- legally-binding break it. bargaining basis, in opposition organization, an employers' in Since under the almost process, gravure, or any other section, would difficult as everybody wol be so • g legally-binding to be virtually impossible.'

sym- pathetic action Ily Even if SLADE could avoid ruled out, thus the all these pitfalls, its possibilities possibility of on for action would still be crippled.

such as SLADE. Mr Knapp also points out that Illegal the power of the union's mem- bers decide their own rules If the Society wished would also be lost: to use industrial action, even a limited "The new Registrar of Trade action far short • of • an actual Unions and Employers' Associa- strike, would be required and the National Industrial conduct that action. 'in accord- tions. ance with the requirements of the Relations Court, will havé power new law. to en if ten the to de they think rules This would make a number of "principles" conflict i with the of so-called unfair the Act. industrial actions' illegal. Among these is "They would decide whether acting in sympathy. "reasonable"; whether a rule was By the nature of the industry, had been fairly applied; the success of any action taken whether a worker should be ad-

SLADE

whether members depends mitted or expelled; upon the support given by had exercised sufficient discipline other members, particularly in ensuring over our members; and whether that work affected by the dispute had used our "best en- deavours" to prevent or stop an ('fugitive' taken work) 1S elsewhere. "unfair industrial action" tv

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colleagues will be made legal or illegal according to the law as it time by a political party sitting at Westminster, and as it will be interpreted by the the govern ment agencies set up by the new The SLADE general secretary concludes: "The fact is that it will be impossible or extremely difficult for you, your Chapel or anyone else in the Society to carry on doing the majority of the things which we now do. 'Many of what we regard as normal procedures and policies will be illegal, and the whole of the Chapel, branch, and Society activities will be in the melting pot. "Obviously, the Society will continue to devote itself to find- ing ways and means to progress the interests of the members whatever happens, but the ability you and else to everyone maintain present employment standards seems doubtful once the Act is passed. "The total effect of the Act is to dramatically weaken your per- sonal rights with your employer, either an individual or as a as member of the Society. It is a bosses' charter!'

However, this very clear exposure of the effects of the Tories' intentions on the mem- bership of this union is weak- ened by the total absence of any strategy to defeat the Tories.

Like the rest of the trade union leaders, Knapp wants to confine all action to protest: *Please raise your voice in protest before it is too latel In particular the executive com- mittee urges full representation at the local meetings of protest being organized by the TUC and she repres Ctations atule T US: Albert Hall demonstration in London on Tuesday, January 12, and at all the local protest meet- ings being organized for lunch- time January 12: (Our on emphasis.) Future Everything is to be tailed behind the TUC and no indica- tion whatever is to be given of any future action: "The TUC is arranging a special Congress to be held in March, at which the trade union movement will no doubt decide what there is next to be done' (Our , emphasis.) . This is insufficient and lays the movement open to defeat.

Throughout this document, which clearly exposes the Tories' intentions, there runs a fatalistic that the Bill will acceptance become law. Only the policy of the Socialist Labour League and the All Trades Unions Alliance - now taken up by the S Wales miners and Liverpool Trades Council- for a General Strike to stop the Bill can ensure any secure future for the members of SLADE.

Is that a fact. 5.45 London. a356 Res Wales Glory' roads: 6.06 port Report Crossroads. Film: "Gun 8.30 Six dates with Barker. 9.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Morgan. 11.15 Edgar Tohn Wallace. 12.15 Weather. HTV (West) colour channel 61 above except: 4.07-4.09 and 5.56-6.35 Report West. 10.30-11.15 Aquarius. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41, HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white ser- vice as above except: 5.15-5.45 Mag- pie. 5.56-6.16 Y Dvda

ANGLIA: 3.35

Granny gets the point. 4.00 News. 4.05 Women today. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 Lost in space. 5.45 London. 5.55 About Anglia. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Branded. 7.30 Mod squad. 8.25 Six dates with Barker. 9.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Aquarius. 11.15 Film: 'House on Haunted Hill'. 12.40 Epi- logue. ATY MIDLANDS: 2.40 Granny gets Houseparty. Horoscope. Women today. 4 Do little pups. 4.50 Land of ans 4.40 Zingalong. London. Crossroads. a bird's eye view. 7.30 Der: ment S. 8.25 Six dates with Bari.r 9.00 London. Whiplash. Scientists. Midland Personally speaking, weather.

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. 7.3 Gunsmoke. 8.30 Six dates with Barker 9.00 London. 10.30 Deadline. 11.0 Name of the game.

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12.10 Weather. GRANADA: 4.05 News, Peyton Place Zingalong; ondon. 4.50 Spiderman. Newsday. Beverly hillbillies. dates with 9.00 London. 10.30 Avengers. 11.00 One step beyond. 12.00 Weather.

TYNE TEES: 4.00 News. 4.05 Women today. 4.35 Zingalong. 4.50 Thunder. bird Voyage to bottom of the se 5.45 London. 6.00 Today at six.

London. Trial'. Laurence Olivier. 12.40 News.

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Look- around. 6.25 Sports review. 6.35 Cross- London. roads. 7.00 10.30 Film: "Hitler'. Biography. 12.15 weather. SCOTTISH: 4.05 Dateline4.50 4.15 Zing- alon Cartoon. 5.45 London. 6.00 Date.

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