A CALL TO THE WORKING CLASS

on the second day of their 12th annual conference at Scarborough yesterday carried an emergency resolution from their national committee on the present stage of the fight against the Tory government.

The resolution warns that behind the screen of apparent concession to reflation in the budget and the removal of Stormont in Ulster, the real face of the Tory government is revealed in: • • The £5,000 fine on the Transort and General Workers' Union. • Changes in police and judicial powers in the proposed amendments to the Criminal Justice Internment and troops Ireland, and the recent raids members of left-wing groups Britain.

The resolution calls for the stepping up of the fight to make the Tory government resign and pledges full support for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of 1972.

Support for the resolution was unanimous at the conference, which was the largest in the history of the YS. One thousand seven hundred delegates and visitors filled the floor of the hall to capacity and much of the upstairs gallery.

For a report on the conference proceedings, see page 12. This is the text of yesterday's emergency motion: 1 This YS conference warns the youth and the working-class movement that the struggle between the working class and the capitalist class in Britain has reached a very tense and dangerous stake. Behind the scenes and dominating everything, the world capitalist economic crisis is plunging into deep recession, all-out trade war and mass unemployment. 2 The capitalist class can answer this crisis only by preparing counter-revolution and reaction against the working class. Entry into the Common Market is to join hands with the reactionary and neo-fascist representatives of the big monopolies of western Europe. The Tory budget was part of these plans. Its measures for temporary reflation were a fraud, to assist the reformist trade union and Labour leaders in their betrayals. 3 The Tory attack takes two main forms, and it is being stepped up every day. Unemployment, already over 1 million, will increase at a rapid rate as the flight of big capital into Europe gets under way in the Common Market.

Repressive strengthening

the state machine against John Simmance, YS national secretary, addresses the 1,700-stong Scarborough conference working class, particularly in the courts, is the other weapon. Changes in the Criminal Justice Act strengthen the hand of the police and abolish basic rights of accused persons. Raids on the homes of members of the International Socialism' and other groups are made without charge and without Cabinet statements.

In Ulster, hundreds are interned without charge and without trial, many of them subjected to torture.

Finally, and most important of all, the Industrial Court is implementing the Industrial Relations Act, beginning with the £5,000 fine on the T&GWU. This is the real face of the Tory government. The YS must lead the struggle against every one of these repressions. 4 The miners' strike was a defeat for the government's wages policy, but because of the treachery of the trade union leaders it became only a temporary setback and the Tories remain in power to prepare the next attack.

The reformists, Stalinists and revisionists have completely opposed the campaign of the YS and the Socialist Labour League to create the conditions for forc110° the Tory government to resign. Their treachery is to oppose the bringing down of the Tory government by the working class' own actions, thus leaving the door oden for the Tories to prepare a snap election when they consider the situation favourable. ..• 5 Conference warns that in this very tense political situation there will be no compromıze, and no settlement without the victory of one class or the other. ... 6 Conference calls on youth and workers everywhere to redouble the fight to create the conditions for forcing the Tory government to resign. In this context, we salute the advance of the NLF in Vietnam.

Every blow we strike here against the Tory government is a blow against the main ally of US imperialism. In the same context of struggle to bring down the Tory government, we call for the end of internment and withCLASH OVER UNION LAW LOOMS ON THE DOCKS •ROM STEPHEN JOHNS A MAJOR confrontation between one of Britain's most militant groups of workers and the Industrial Relations Act may be only days away.

The flash-point is the docks, where shop stewards in leading ports are threatening a national strike if dockers who are "blacking' a road-haulage firm are faced with court action.

Such a strike is the most likely outcome following a meeting of port leaders in Liverpool on Saturday. And yesterday Merseyside dockers became the first to endorse the stewards' decisions at a mass meeting in the city's boxing stadium.

It is on Merseyside that any trouble is likely to break out first.

(ERS PRESS VOWTIONARY | drawal of all troops from Ulster. 7 Conference calls upon all trade unionists to answer the soaring cost of living by fighting for 'wage increases, recognizing that the wages fight cannot be separated from the struggle to make the government resign...

Conference pledges to redouble the efforts of the YS in the fight for the right to work, around the central aim of forcing the Tory government to resign and returning a Labour government Dockers there have been blacking container lorries from Heaton's Transport Ltd, a St Helens haulage-and-warehousing firm. Two weeks ago Heaton's obtained an order from the National Industrial Relations Court telling the Transport and General Workers' Union to stop the action.

It subsequently. fined the T&GWU £5,000 for contempt.

But at the weekend port stewards extended the black nationally. and broadened its scope to cover all the cargo of Heaton's and two other NorthWest haulage firms.

Heaton's is expected to ask the NIRC to act again on its behalf today or tomorrow, assuming no compromize formula is arrived at in talks today. If this happens the strike could begin.

Last Friday a meeting between dockers' leaders and Transport and General Workwhich will be forced to nationalize without compensation and with workers' control. This is the programme of the hour, and on this programme we will fight in order to launch the revolutionary party which will lead the working class in its struggle for power.

Conference pledges itself, therefore, to work for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in the autumn of 1972.

ers' Union branch secretary in St Helens, Henry Hull, failed to settle the issue.

Heaton's have given dockers in Liverpool until noon today to lift the black.

The man at centre of the storm will be T&GWU leader Jack Jones, who has until Wednesday to explain to the NIRC why his union should not be fined for contempt. If he fails to do this, or pay up, the assets of the union will be seized.

Also on Wednesday the NIRC is due to decide finally whether the black is an unfair industrial practice, which could lead to an unlimited fine.

A Liverpool full-time official of the T&GWU and two docks shop stewards still face blackmail charges. They were arres ted at Gladstone dock, where main blacking action against Heaton's has taken place.