THE whole labour movement must be roused to pared by the TUC General Council in the form of NO SUPPORT FOR T.U.C. "GUIDELINES'

leaders accepted that the organized workers, and not the employers and their the groundwork for changes in the structure of the union to the liking of the employers. all rank-and-file action and the development of independent leadership impossible. They are helping the employers to prepare a furious offensive against shop stewards in form-as 'Programme for Action'-at the September TUC, have now been published as 'guidelines' for the unions to control strikes and shop stewards, (TUC recommendations to member unions, January 1, the last days of the parlianentary session their renewal of powers under Part Two of munist Party, meekly abstained. The vast majority of the 'trade union' MPs voted Council gave the go-ahead to George Brown for the Prices and Incomes Bill on December 22, 1965, has it ever organized a campaign against state interference in the forged the government back in june 1969, these leaders only looked for new ways of tying down the working class. More and more of them are joining government call upon member unions to work out new rules providing for ballots in all strikes, and to define exactly by rule who can bodily from the plans of any employers' same goes for the 'guidelines, Years. The stewards in all unions to be subject to precise rules preventing them from ever initiating the kind of action and solidarity which has been the key to workers' influence over their standard of wages and be responsible not to his members, but to an authority defined by union rule, thus bringing him into the sphere of official discipline for any action not approved of • The stewards' own authority to take strikers may face and 3d an hour for small ing for a strike.

by the die-casting machines. stewards' committee.

The boats' officers had not given the 24-hour action must be defined, but only :.. so notice of leaving required long as it is within the policy of the union within the obligations arising out of by the port authorities and the Cherbourg immigration establishment, company industry-wide officer had not been given agreements to which the union is party'.

La list of the crews.

The TUC makes perfectly clear that the new rules must make shop-fioor action The mystery surrounding impossible. the boats' departure was Factory meetings ' . . are not entitled deepened by. the announceto make decisions, cr instruct stop stewardö ment that they satted out to take actions which are at variance with of the harbour without union policy or with the obligations arising lights, and through the is party; • . agreements to which the union little-used eastern passage instead of the western entheir stewards must report to the unions trance, which is constantly watched by a semaphore official bodies every development amongst officer. their members. This is to ensure that the officials can step in immediately. What is the purpose of these 'guidelines', Collusion issued to the unions on the first day of Finally it was also • rea year when the Tories are likely to return to political office? vealed that two officers The TUC leaders know very well that from the Israeli buying commission had left Cherthe changes of rule they propose cannot be bourg during the night. completed before a general election. Their aim is to condition the union membership All the evidence points for the Tories' anti-union legislation and to collusion between French to encounage the employers.

officials and the Israeli Instead of leading the fight against the government (or those acting Tories and against the Labour government, on their behalf), to release which has opened the door for them, these the five • gunboats, which TUC leaders, frightened by the workingwhen equipped with missiles class opposition to legislation in 1969, are will prove a deadly menace preparing the ground more thoroughly, so to Arab shipping. they think, for the next attempt to legislate against shop stewards and strikes.

In 1969, the working class has shown great fighting strength against the employers. It faces much bigger struggles with the London docks coming US economic recession and the threat of a Tory government.

State control of the unions is the aim of the employing class, and the trade union Phase Two threat bureaucracy, the leaders and full-time officials are collaborating in their plans.

They see integration of the unions into the state as a place in the sun for themselves behind redundancy as a strengthening of their defences against their own rank-and-file.

The interests of the trade union bureaucracy have thus become an immediate threat to the basic defence organizations of the working class. The TUC 'guidelines' are not an alter- PLANS TO tighten the employers' noose around native to legislation against the unions, but, on the contrary, are intended as the prethe necks of London paration for such legislation. To fight against such future legislation means dockers were taken a stage fight every inch of the way against the further at this week's TUC proposals.

The Socialist Labour League therefore meeting of the port's Dock calls for an all-out campaign in every union Labour Board. to reject the TUC 'guidelines' on union rules. This is an absolutely essential part By March 1970, it was of the fight against the return of the Tories. confirmed, another 1,400 December 30, 1969. dockers are to be paid off the register.

More ominous still, redundancy plans for the 15 months from that date give. clear warning that the employers intend to press ahead with the second phase of Lord Devlin's docks 'modernization' in the teeth of the dockers' Anti-war G.I.s face further repression By a foreign correspondent US MILITARY repressions against anti-war GIs continue. Robert H. Bower, a 20-year-old veteran of the Vietnam war now stationed at Fort Hood is charged with being absent without leave for three hours, participating in a public demonstration while in uniform and being off post while in uniform. THE Labour government has withdrawn a further £73 million from the International Monetary Fund.

This is the third instalment of the standby credit agreed last June.

Despite all the entorts made to boost sterling's achieving parity with other currencies, as a major strengthening of the economy, capitalist Britain slides deeper and deeper into debt to the USA.

This fact will also dominate the Wilson-Nixon talks in Washington towards the end of January.

Economically speaking, the Labour government absolutely tied to the US bankers.

That is why all the claptrap from fake-lefts and the Communist Party that. Wilson will criticize Nixon's Vietnam policies is absurd.

It ignores the basic fact that the Labour government is pledged to defend bankrupt British capitalism as it is with all its debts to the USA.

Here is the foundation stone of its alliance with Nixon over Vietnam.

All the charges stem from Bower's participation in the October 15 Vietnam moratorium at the Capitol in Austin, where Bower was one of the speakers.

Another case involves Private Richard Chase, who has been in the Fort Hood stockade since mid-October for his refusal to take part in 'Operation Garden Plot'— the federal government's national 'riot control' training programme.

Despite this repression, the movement of Gis against the Vietnam war and all aspects of militarism continues to grow.

in supports tnam policy Those who turn a blind eye to this fact simply do so because their job is to provide a left cover for Wilson.

They mislead the working class over the real economic issues behind Wilson's subservience to Nixon by creating the illusion that he can be forced to change-a lie from beginning to end.

In the entire history of Wilson's government, from 1964 to the present day, there is not one single example of an occasion when it has defied the international bankers.

If the Labour government was to oppose Nixon, it would have to split from Wilson and the right wing and adopt socialist policies such as the nationalization of the basic industries, without compensation under workers' control.

Such a decision wollo, de monopoly of foreign trade and the scrapping of all loan commitments to foreign bankers.

The fake-lefts and the yesterday of_possessing two pennies as offensive weapons the Springboks versus London Counties rugby match at Twickenham on November 22.

The accused, a London student, was fined £10.

was said by • a police detective to have taken several coins from his pocket, chosen two pennies and had been about to throw one of them when arrested.

door of the Stalinists.

The events surrounding the Milan bomb explosion must serve as a warning to the Italian working class and leftwing students.

Maoism and anarchism are not the way out of this crisis. any more than are the parliamentary policies of the Communist Party.

The task remains one of breaking the working class from Stalinism by building a Trotskyist leadership based on the programme of the Fourth International. for job-evaluation are in the pipeline.

A previous strike in May 1967 over conditions in the factory's paint shop led to the signing of a full co-operation agreement after the men were locked out.

It is feared that any divisions at this stage will only weaken the fight against the management's productivity proposals.

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