Force the Tories to resign—ACTT conference

TRADE UNION action to force the Tories to resign is now official policy of the 17,000strong Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians.

With only three of the 223 delegates voting against, the union's annual conference at the weekend condemned the present government's attempts to use unemployment as a weapon against wage demands. It called on the TUC to 'take any necessary action' to combat joblessness.

This, a composite motion said, should include "mobilizing , the trade union movement to action -to force this government to resign-and replace it with a Labour government committed to socialist policies.

Earlier on Saturday, the conference issued a warning to the TUC about its talks with the Labour leaders about a substitute Industrial Relations Act.

An overwhelmingly-supported motion reaffirmed total ACTT opposition to the Act, called on the TUC to expel unions who have defied its instruction to deregister and demanded a pledge of immediate repeal from the Labour Party.

The first day ended with the union changing its financial arrangements to provide it with funds protected from the Tory law. Roy Battersby, Freelance shop: 'Firm and unylelding' on anti-union Aet.

Yesterday the conference called on all film-industry unions to insist on a continuing role for the National Film Finance Corporation, which is threatened with virtual extinction by the Tories.

In opening the conference, ACTT president George Elvin said that all the union's rights were now at risk under the Industrial Relations Act.

'We must press for a General Election and the defeat of the present government, responsible for this most vindictive class legislation, he said. What we need is the return of a Labour government pledged to repeal the Freelance shop steward Roy Battersby moved the motion demanding repeal.

The class who owned and controlled the means of production had made pertectly clear its intention to wage 'war to the end' against organized workers, he said. 'No compromise is posbel The daily paper that leads the fight again the Torles.

Clapham THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY months. Dennis Claridge, from Technicolor: "A socialist economy sible in this irreconcilable conflict.' He went on: 'The TUC policy is to recommend unions to skate around the Act; avoid frontation with it, not fight to defeat it.

'But our position, if we are to fight for our rights and win better conditions for our members has to be absolutely firm, absolutely unyielding.' In seconding the motion, freelance shop delegate Yvonne Richards said that the union had a duty to stand by members who had strike action or imposed overtime bans.

"The ruling class has its police, its law, its capital and its army, said have only our industrial strength.' London Weekend Television delegate Gavin Waddell called for rejection of the motion. He claimed ilal throughout machinery of the Act a requisite of every stage of the process was compromise and The campaign of opposition, he declared, was led by a powerful group 'armchair revolutionaries, BBC Bolsheviks, the Luddites of the left and well-heeled proletarians from the working-class ghettoes of Hampstead and Muswell Hill'.

Four votes were cast against the motion.

Dennis Claridge, from the Technicolor shop, said, in moving the composite on unemployment that it was more than a coincidence that joblessness and the "Financial Times' share index reached their highest levels on virtually the same day.

"The private-enterprise system has totally failed to deal with unemployment, he said. 'We must have planned, socialist économy.' Freelance shop delegate Roger Smith moved an amendment demanding TUC-led action against the Tories, which was accepted by the movers.

Unless trade unionists grappled with the nature of the present crisis, he said, they would go into the fight 'disarmed and unprepared. dollar's convertibility with pared'. Since Nixon had ended gold last August, the period of inflation and compromise had come to an end.

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