Big business hopeful about the TUC

Wage of East London are seeking restraining orders against the dockers.

The detective agency, Eurotec, was hired by the firm on June 26 to establish the identity of pickets outside the depot gate.

Mr Garry Murray, a senior partner in Eurotec, said that on June 26 he followed one of the picket's vehicles and the registration number helped him obtain the picket's address.

The next day he was present when photographs were taken of the picket line at the Cold Store. These were produced in court.

'On June 28 I interviewed a picket. I spoke with one and he told me his name was Tony Merrick and he had been picketing for five or six weeks, Murray told the court.

that he THE SHOWDOWN over jobs on Britain's docks took a decisive step nearer when the Road Haulage Association announced yesterday that it 'totally rejected' demands that work undertaken in its premises should be done solely by registered dockers, In a memorindum to the Tory government the Association says it wholly opposes action calculated to impede the 'legitimate conduct of haulage businesses'. The dock labour scheme must not be extended into the field of road transport operation. a supposed 'leader' in the London area.

Asked by Judge Boyfield who he said, he was when phoning these people, Murray replied:

'I confirmed I was a freelance news researcher and wanted to find out their feelings about the situation. I told them I'd been speaking to their husbands who had given me permission to talk to them.' Another detective, William Laslett, identified in court a number of pickets from photographs taken by his firm.

'We also followed Mr Edward Hedges and Mr Merrick to a pub called "The Gladstone" in SW8' When they came out they were with another man and they drove off somewhere, said Laslett.

Council for the company, Mr Alan Campbell QC, produced a copy of the 'Morning Star' and from a photograph and caption in the paper or the picket line, Laslett said he could identify Bernie Steer and Vic Turner.

Earlier in the hearing yesterday the court refused to hear certain evidence in camera because the dockers and th e three unions who have : been joined in the case would not have been able to hear it afterwards.

PETER JEFFRIES IN THE midst of the most serious financial crisis in capitalism's history, the leaders of Britain's trade unions are consciously preparing their biggest-ever act of betrayal against the working class.

This is the real purpose of the talks - both open and behind closed doorswhich the TUC leaders are now conducting both with the Tory government and the employers.

The capitalist press, which can smell the stench of betrayal in the air, clearly is hopeful that Heath's proposal for a joint Cabinet-TUC committee to discuss the inflationary crisis will meet with a favourable response when it. comes before the TUC Economics Committee at next Wednesday's meeting.

As Wednesday's 'Financial Times' noted: While they (the TUC) have no intention of agreeing voluntarily to restrain wage increases . . . they are unlikely to refuse to hold talks with the government which might help to take the heat out of the situaThe capitalist class, however, is acutely conscious of its great weakness. Even if the revisionists cannot see that conditions of dual power are rapidly emerging in Britain, the financial commentators can.

Writing in Wednesday's 'Evening Standard' City Editor David Malbert commented: 'Those who observe us from overseas are now saying: Britain has two governments, the formal one and the other, unelected group, that wields the real power?

As if to underline the point, 'The Guardian' also stated, commenting on the slight recovery made by sterling on Wednesday:

'There was also some evidence that the market regarded the outcome of the talks between the Prime Minister and the TÜC leaders at Downing Street on Tuesday as 'not discouraging'. The

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