Fight the T.U.C. guidelines

TRADE UNIONISTS from Sheffield, the Midlands and the North-West have already expressed their complete opposition in the columns of the Workers Press to the TUC General Council's 'guidelines' on strikes and shop stewards. Today, a Scottish member of the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers puts his finger on the main political danger of the proposals, issued to the unions on the first day of a year in which the Tories DEMONSTRATION • For the defeat of US imperialism in Vietnam Sunday, January 11, 1970 ASSEMBLE : Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch MAR Fatalgar SqUare pasS Dow, ing Sere Stree MEETING: 4 PM Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych Speakers will include leading Oxford car worker and T&GWU shop steward Alan Thornett (right) Details from 186a • i High Street, London, S.W - says Scottish trade unionist likely to return to government office.

We invite all trade unionists to begin a massive campaign against these dangerous proposals in union branches and shop stewards' committees by writing to the Workers Press.

Alex McCrone, Govan South AEF, writes:

Tickets fr hole weekend 12s 6d Since the withdrawal of the anti-strike law we have been expecting moves through the back door.

Personally, I don't think the workers will accept any part of this. So now we can bring forward the fight with the "left" MPs who are supposed to be against Wilson, yet actually support him.

The TUC's "guidelines" lay down the foundation for the Tories attacking the working class.

South Wales correspondent is that the ground for Barry's expected visit to Port Talbot was prepared by the lodge committee's retreat in front of the lock-out of blastfurnace and coke-oven workers from the Margam steelworks just after Christmas.

REFUSED

A leading member of this committee-prominent in last summer's eight-week strikehas refused to sign the At the same time, the only stewards now taking up a principled struggle against the terms of the British Steel Corporation's vicious 'Green Book' proposals are those who are also campaigning to stop Wilson's visit to Washington.

A coincidence?

1969 brought many bitter experiences-from the Merseyside GEC-BE struggle to the miners' and dustmen's strikes - where centrist or purely syndicalist unofficial leaderPAGE January

Francis Askew High School were Labour Party members A. Foord and M. Wilson.

One Hull doctor-a member of the Medical Practitioners' Union-has also supported the campaign.

Oxford stewards

FIFTY members of the T&GWU, NUVB and AEF (including 20 shop stewards), have signed the petition at Oxford's BMC Service plant.

Among the AEF members signing were senior steward, J. Power; deputy senior steward, B. Leahy; shop stewards B. Clarke, G. Bailey, P. Lee, K. Hall, D. Trevena, J. East, R. Johnson and B. Johnson.

From the T&GWU were deputy senior steward, G. Morrison; shop stewards A. Wilkes, F. Chisholm, B. Didcock, T. Nicholson, T. Evans, L. Blackwell, D. Mechen, P. Hayes and H. McGlyn. NUG&MW, T&GWU ISTC members - including Communist Party district committee member and steel branch chairman A. McLean, also an ISTC branch delegate to the Corby Trades Council —have also signed the Also signing were D. Quill, secretary of Desborough's NUG&MW branch, and NUG&MW shop steward S. McLean.

Convenor signs

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