DOCKS-THE NEXT STEP

has thrown Tory policies into disarray.

But the Industrial Relations Act and the Tory government still remain intact. What is even more important the representatives of the ruling class are acutely conscious of the very real Industrial Relations Act and is at stake-indeed it is capitalism in Britain.

At the same time as the law forbade MPs to debate what was happening on the docks last week, this same law was being ignored on the docks by the working class. Here is no ordinary being called off on the strength of last Friday's dramatic moves in the Appeal Court.

An immediate rush back to work today by the 36,000 dockers who struck on Friday can be ruled out.

Many stewards feel that the threat of imprisonment against Bernie Steer, Vicky Turner and Alan Williams has not been permanently lifted. They are not satisfied with union leaders' efforts on the issue of container dangers now confronting them. They • realize that much jobs, and there is growing impatience in particular with Transport and General Workers' chief Jack Jones.

A statement issued after Saturday's meeting said the dockers' campaign for the right to work would continue, 'safe in the knowledge that future attacks must, and could, be repelled by their solidarity.

The failure to jail the three London stewards, who did not attend the meeting, was 'a magnifimore than the the government the future of class.

Those who ignore this very real danger should re-read the history of similar situations in the past, especially the period of the provisional government in Russia 1917, and the 1919 experiences of the Triple Alliance.

Lenin contemptuously rejected the policies of Stalin and others who supported the provisional government and went on to prepare the social revolution, whereas in Britain the Triple Alliance, which posed the problem of power, was treated as another trade union issue.

'As Gallacher, leader of the Clyde movement said later when it was too late, of course—"We were carrying on a strike when we, "Gentlemen" said the PM "Are you ready to take over"!

The real danger now is that while the ruling class leaders are painfully conscious of their weakcent victory, not only for dockers but for all workers in the country.

Said the statement: "The wonderful and immediate support we received in our hour of need will be given fully to other workers threatrelations Act Industrial The Hull meeting had to be held in the Royal Station Hotel, because the stewards have been barred from using Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. been making a revolution"! (See ness, the working class is not yet conscious of its strength. Decades of reformist and Stalinist treachery are responsible for this most serious handicap.

Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Jack Dash of the Communist Party are responsible for the acceptance of the Devlin plan and containerizaIt is they who persuaded the dockers to take the road which led to the open register and Chobham Farm.

capitalist employers means speedup and unemployment.

CONTAINERIZATION within the framework of a socialist plan would mean full employment and shorter working hours when the docks and transport industries . were nationalized under workers' control.

The harsh truth on the docks today is that neither Jones nor anyone else can solve the container problem without accepting large-scale unemployment, compensation notwithstanding.

All reformist talks with the employers are just as deadly as acceptance of the Devlin report was in the first place.

Perhaps the greatest gain is that the vast majority of dockers are becoming rapidly aware of the dangers they face.

This is why the Socialist Labour League stresses over and over again that the central task is mobilize the industrial strength of the working class to make this government resign, replace it with a Labour government which will be forced by the strength of the working class to nationalize all the major industries-including docks and transport—without compensation under workers' The Communist Party,