ANGER GROWS AGAINST TORY COURT

THE WORKING CLASS against the TUC's surrena Relations Act. The focus movement is the docks, Industrial Relations Court port (see p. 12). 11- Taraadima Jack Jones, wiin tne r that 9 million trade unio accepting laws that remove Jones agreed with the TU edict that his Transport ar General Workers' Uni‹ should pay £55,000 in fines the Court. But this policy w unacceptable to the T&GW Finance and General Purpos Committee.

Instead Jones has been forci to call his whole executi together. This is a lay bor comprising men from Britair major docks and factories. Thi will decide on Monday, May whether Britain's biggest unic will capitulate to the Court • stand up and fight it.

As Jones received this rebu another powerful body in tl trade union movement came o against surrender. This was t] he National Committee of t. he Amalgamated Union of Enginee 3ring Workers. On behalf of 1 million engineers it demanded recall of the delegates to la last September's TUC Congress debate the issue.

Now we have the technic and supervisory section of tl he AUEW - who faced their fir rst Court action yesterday.- 1 ieaffirming their determination n lot AUEW before Court for first time DRAUGHTSMEN'S union leaders were yesterday told by the National Industrial Relations Court to stop industrial action against members of the United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers, a non-TUC organization, at five NE factories of C. A. Parsons Ltd.

The interim order, which lasts until next Tuesday, May 2, is the Court's first involving a section of Britain's second largest union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

And NIRC President Sir John Donaldson took the opportunity • Turn to P.12 est oI nists = thei JC nd on as ies is beginning to fight back ler to the Tory Industrial of this developing mass where defiance of the is spreading from port to ine 1 ul leauers, is learning will not be railroaded into r basic rights.

to co-operate with the anti-union laws.

Tories my res can streater Tories relent greater and more determined resistance among ordinary trade unionists.

Workers were stunned when their leaders crumbled so rapidly because the Tories used the law. But now the shock is wearing off, and they want the TUC General Council to get off its knees.

This means that Victor Feather and his General Council are out of order. They have no right or mandate to reverse the TUC Congress decision of September and hand the whole trade union movement over to the Tories.

Because this is exactly what Feather is proposing.

He suggests voluntary conciliation procedures and further talks with the government to avoid the law.

These are the words of compromise used in a period when compromise has been abolished by order of a judge.

You cannot compromise with a court of law you can only obey or face the penalties. And if Jack Jones wants to test out this idea, let him pay his fine on Monday as a gesture of 'compromise'. If he does, the Tories Will be back on Tuesday still demanding he stops the action of the dockers which has been declared illegal.

In short, there is no way round this Court. The Tories have the law and they will use it. Any employer can go to court and get a judgement because that is the law.

The union leaders and the whole working class face two courses of action-surrender or a fight to repeal the Industrial Relations Act. And in order to do this, it is necessary to create the industrial and political conditions to force the government to resign.

This must be the central demand at the May Day and protests on Monday.

We back the one-day strike, but declare it inadequate. rid of the law, the gove rnment must be removed and only a General Strike can iossibly create the conditions this. Buiiermakers leader Danny McGarvey seen conference room at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, he and shop stewards from the Upper Clyde with Marathon chief Wayne Harbin. thro Lon Shir through the , the door of a 1, yesterday after Upper Clyde Shipbuilders had talked ilders had talked FUND REACH