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action call by unions UNION leaders and rank-and-file activists throughout Britain have called for a General Strike to defeat the Tory Industrial Relations Bill.

Others have said they will support a campaign of industrial action force the government to resign.

These calls come on the eve of the TUC's anti-Bill Congress, an event which will be overshadowed by tomorrow's one-day protest strike, called by the country's two biggest unions, which will halt most of British industry.

Leaders of the engineers, transport workers, miners and draughtsmen have told are against the 'public pressure only campaign Miners' secretary Daly which will be put to dele-' gates at Croydon tomorrow by the TUC General Council.

The vote will have to be for or against the recommendation, which ignores industrial action. There can be no amendments. secretary of the 300,000 strong National Union of Mineworkers, said he was personally opposed to his executive's decision to vote for the TUC document.

Mistaken

I think the TUC policy is a mistake. It is too weak and I think it ought to be opposed, said Mr Daly.

I think the Bill can be defeated by concerted industrial action. I think it can be defeated by a General Strike and this has been my own view ever since the Tories made their intentions towards the trade unions clear.

"The government,' said Mr Daly, 'does not have a majority as it claims. There were more people who voted against it, or abstained, than voted for it. It has no mandate whatsoever to attempt to destroy the trade union movement which represents the interests of the

whole of the working people FROM THE Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, assistant general secretary ERNIE ROBERTS mendations mendation the were remere obstacles' to the working pf the Bill that employers and the government would easily overcome.

The AUEW was the first to call out its members on official strike against the Bill and it will be leading Thursday's stoppages while its delegates at Croydon vote against the TUC docuCorrect 'I don't think the Bill or the laws will be defeated without industrial action. It is quite correct for the working class to take industrial action for political ends because they are faced with a Tory government that is taking political action for industrial ends.

'The AUEW has given a lead on this front so far, but we can't go on standing alone.

*All of the trade union movement must be involved.

The TUC leadership should make it quite clear that workers are prepared to use the ultimate weapon of industrial action including the General Strike.' EDDIE MARSDEN, the general secretary of the Constructional Engineering Union, said that his executive were 100 per cent against the TUC recommendations as they existed.

'We believe, contrary to the General Council's document, that the TUC should instruct all its member unions not to register under 'We are also, of course, against No 7 of the council's proposals which in effect rules out industrial action against the Bill, he told me.

'We feel that it is now an urgent necessity for the TUC to lead the whole of the movement in industrial action against this vicious ALL TRADES MEETINGS Lessons of the postmen's strike.

SWANSEA: Wednesday March 17 7.30 p.m. Swansea Working Men's Club, Alexander Road.

EDINBURGH: Thursday March 18 8. p.m. Railwaymen's Hall, Restalrig Rd, Jocks Lodge.

NEWCASTLE: Thursday, March 7.30 p.m. Connaught Hall, Blacket Street.

LUTON: Friday, March 19, 8 p.m. AEU House, Dunstable Road. SHEFFIELD: Sunday March 21, 7.30 p.m. Attercliffe Vestry Hall, Attercliffe Common. 'The crisis in steel-fight the redundancies!' GLASGOW: Sunday March 21, 7.30 Workers Press Rooms, 46 W Princes St. St George's Cons.

ACTON: Monday March 22, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Rd, W3. CROYDON: Thursday March 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Rd.