AS THE TORY GOVERNMENT ROCKS WILL JONES DO A DOCKS DEAL?

THIS IS A decisive week in the life of the Tory Through the determined resistance of government. the working class the government can be brought down.

On a whole number unemployment, prices, torture in Ulster-this working class.

Standing between the will and the ability of the working class to force the Tories out, is Victor Feather and the other TUC leaders.

Feather has fled from a fight with the Tories by refusing to call for a recall of the September congress-despite the fact this is what a clear majority of trade unionists urgenty want.

At the miners' gala in Edinburgh on Saturday thousands of workers and their families unanimously passed a resolution 'calling • up the TUC General Council to immediately reconvene congress in order to unite the whole movement to smash the legislation by refusing to recognize, co-operate or acquiesce with any of the machinery set up by the Industrial Relations Instead, Feather has contravened congress policy by recommending co-operation with National Industrial Relations Court and payment of its fines.

Since the fighting spirit of the working class demonstrated in the miners' strike, Feather has been engaged in frenetic collaboration with Heath and Tory leaders.

But the greatest appeaser of all is 'cloth-cap hero Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary. He has already achieved the dubious distinction of being the first trade union leader to pay Tory fines.

Will he now become the first trade union leader to keep the government in office by creating a smokescreen of confusion among his docks members about formula' for peace?

Will Jones do his Munich and wave a piece of paper signed with Maurice Macmillan calling for 'peace in our time' on the docks?

The national shop stewards' committee answered Jones and the Tories on Saturday when they decided not only to continue their black on container firms, but to intensify it!

This rank-and-file resistance also expressed itself magnificently in the rail ballot last week.

When the railmen voted for of issues—the Industrial Relations Act, the Common Market and murder and government stands condemned by the the continuation of industrial action, they were voting for the whole of the working class against the government and its industrial court.

It was the voice of the working class-and it brought a message which has shaken the Tories.

Having begun two weeks ago with the policy of declaring 'industrial war' on the railmen, having declared in a number of ministerial statements that the 'greedy' railmen would be 'resisted at all costs' for the economic good of the nation, the Tories are now wavering. They're split.

In the next two days the Cabinet will have to resolve the question-will they fight the railmen or pay up?

The rifts in the ruling class on this question are very real. Only the other day, the normally sober pro-Tory political correspondent of the London 'Evening News', commenting on persistent statements that the offer of £20 a week is a 'generous one, suggested that Macmillan should try to live on it for a while.

For the Tories the situation is fraught with dangers. They are moving through a minefield guided, to a large extent, by the Feathers and Joneses.

But there are other irrevocable forces at work. By Wednesday or Thursday the Court of Appeal will pass judgement on appeals by the T&GWU against fines and injunctions imposed on it by the NIRC. to nuclear weapons WAR •Recall T&G conference' A MEETING called by the Transport and General Workers' Union 1/667 branch in London yeşterday deplored the union executive's decision • to pay the £55,000 fines levied by the National Industrial Relations Court.

The 40-strong meeting of T&GWU, members, which was supported by officials of several other branches in the London region, called for a return to the policy of no co-operation laid down by the union's last conference. It said the conference should be recalled.

But the organizers remained silent on the vital issues of leadership which are now concerning many thousands of T&GWU members-even patting the executive on the back for its failure to discipline shop stewards as asked to do the by NIRC.