GENERAL STRIKE TO FORCE TORIES OUT FORCE TORIES OUT

A CALL for a General Strike instruction against the Industrial Relations Act was made in Bournemouth yesterday by print union leader Richard Briginshaw, a member of the TUC's 'inner cabinet'. He said the trade unions should raise their sights beyond the level of representation cap in hand' and challenge the Tories for power. 'There is onlv one wav the Tories can serve the national interest-that is to resign built around a lack of direction.' - verno wnole. ITS organizational structure Is forthwith,' Briginshaw said.

He was proposing a resolution for about a challenge for power, because 'total opposition and non-co-operation' when it came to the point they withdrew with the Act at the annual conference of as they had not thought the issue through. the National Society of Operative Printers, 'Our movement is deficient in this regard. graphical and Media Personnel Our union wants to raise its sights (NATSOPA).

The resolution, resolution, passed by a large hand.' majority, also declared the union was 'further prepared to defy the rulings or Counci had opposed the call for a oneStop black' or go to jailPRESIDENT of the National Industrial Relations Court Sir John Donaldson yesterday threatened that three London docks shop stewards would be committed to jail on Monday for disobeying court orders.

They are Vic Turner, Bernie Steer and Alan Williams, port workers at the Royal Group of docks.

Donaldson found them in contempt of orders banning the picketing of lorries at the Chobham Farm container depot, East London.

In issuing his sensational judgement, Donaldson declared: 'The conduct of these men, as it appears at present, has gone far beyond anything which could appropriately be disposed of by the imposition of a fine.

'Unless we receive some explanation we have no alternative but to make orders committing them to prison.

'We shall therefore sign warrants for arrest and detention.' He said the Court would sit at 10.30 a.m. to give the three men a chance to explain conduct.

They would also have until 2 p.m. appear before the court of appeals.

If they have not appeared before us tomorrow morning or applied to the court of appeals before 2 p.m. on Friday, June 15, the warrants will issue and they will be brought before us at 10.30 a.m. on Monday June 19 when we shall consider orders should be made, turther Sir John said the tipstaff would be empowered to commit them to prison on Monday before being brought before the NIRC.

One of the stewards named Relations Court to render the inoperable'.

Sharply attacking the TUC leadership. Briginshaw said: 'If there was a willingness and a desire on the part of our moyement to have this Bill broken completely, it could be done quite quickły. It means that you have to face up to what you are doing-and you are embarking on a challenge for power.' 'What is at issue is the direction, or the lack, of direction of the movement as Until now the unions had not ta!ked beyond the level of representation cap in By contrast, he said, the 1C General today their National strike postponed: Dockers erupt DAVID MAUDE ANGRY DOCKERS erupted into shouts of 'Jones out!' and 'Judas!' outside the Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters in London yesterday after union leaders won a postponement of the national dock strike due to start tomorrow.

By 49 votes to 32, delegates representing Britain's 40,000 portworkers decided to defer industrial action until they hear how a special union-employer committee proposes to solve the the National Industrial and do all in its power Industrial Relations Act dav General Strike arainst took up? day—-is an anachronism.' growing jobs crisis in The committee is expected to report on July 26. A recalled delegate conference will probably take place the following day.

Yesterday's decision, however, was universally unpopular among the 400 striking dockers who lobbied the 2t-hour meeting.

T&GWU chiefs fear that unofficial action may be 'a distinct possibility' after a meeting of port shop stewards in Hull on Saturday.

At least 30,000 dockers staged strike yesterday in cause it was not satisfied of sufficient support among its affiliated membership.

The government, he warned, would defend itself on the basis that the law is the law. He did not agree with people who argued that the Tory government would welcome a General Strike:

"The situation for the Tory government would be a compound situation of the miners' dispute and the railway dispute and, on both counts, they found they had to retire from the harsh position they 'Fundamentally the Industrial Relations a reflection of the anger among the rank- £8,850.

support of national official action.

London, Liverpool, Hull and Preston were all at a standstill.

Only Southampton and Manchester stayed at work along with the smaller ports, whose delegates were largely responsible for yesterday's deferment vote.

The terms under which the strike has been 'put off will do little to allay dockers' fears about the growing threats to their jobs as a result of containerization.

All that the employers conceded in talks with the union leaders on Tuesday was an and-file printworkers at the successive retreats and betrayals of the TUC leaders.

It puts one question squarely before Briginshaw's fellow 'inner cabinet' members Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon: are they going to halt their retreat before the Tories and embark on a challenge for power through a General Strike to bring down the Tory government?

House as striking dockers lobby their delegates who put off strike action for six weeks. ex-gratia payment of £50 to ease the situation of men who have been more than four weeks on the temporarily unattached register; a £500 increase in severance pay, bringing the maximum to £2,830.

But there was no movement on a previous offer of a £3 increase in the present £20 level of fall-back pay or of an extra week's holiday by next year.

T&GWU docks secretary Tim O'Leary said after yesterday's conference that the employers Turn to p. 12