Unions tell LP: Repeal Act

RESOLUTIONS before this year's Labour Party conference call upon the next Labour government to immediately repeal the Industrial Relations Act and to withdraw from the Common Market.

These are among 455 resolutions on the agenda at the annual conference in Blackpool from October 2 to October 6.

the conference Workers' Union- The biggest voting block at and General 'welcomes pledges made on behalf of the Labour Party, by the National Executive Committee, and the Parliamentary Labour Party that the Act will be completely repealed in the first session of the new Labour government'.

Ominously, however, Detectives give minute-by-minute picketing report PRIVATE detectives their notepaper as "l nvest again gave evidence fo r Mir picketing dockers in tions Court yesterday.

At an earlier hearing they revealed how they followed dockers to pubs and to their homes and taken photographs of them on the picket line. One had said that posing as a freelance 'news researcher' he taped conversations he had with dockers' wives.

Yesterday the court heard evidence from Mr Garry Murray, the firm's principal, giving virtually minute-by-minute accounts of the activities of the seven dockers over a period of seven days.

At one point on July detectives carried out run, to see if dockers would follow them.

'We left a depot in our radio patrol car and noted that R. Hedges very quickly jumped into his BMW car and followed us,' said Mr Murray's statement.

They were followed for two miles and after they had used their radio telephone their pursuer left them.

But it was clear that dockers knew who they were for the following day a driver was warned by dockers not to go into Midland's Security Office.

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In contrast to the equivocation of the T&GWU, is the resolution by the AUEW's technical and supervisory section.

It declares total opposition to the Act and calls on the PLP 'to declare immediate and complete. repeal of the Act and the restoration of trade union rights as a prominent part of its programme for the next General Election'.

THE constructional - described Extraordinary' d Storage against Industrial Reladriver. They were referring to Mr Laslett and myself, Murray's statement said.

Two other detectives took in the operations. They Mr William Laslett and Mr Christopher Burch who has recently returned from an army training camp.

On one of the days Eurotec itself sent a vehicle down to the picket line. The driver spoke to the pickets and was handed leaflet.

'This states quite clearly that anyone entering the depot will be blacked nationally,' Murray's evidence said.

The Eurotec vehicle bore name 'Your Move'. 'I like Mr Murray's name for his car,' remarked Sir John.

When the hearing began Mr Marcus Edwards, counsel for Midland, produced sworn affidavits relating to detailed allegations of continued picketing and threats of blacking by the seven dockers.

Reports from "The Times', 'The Guardian', the 'Sun' and the 'Morning Star' were produced.

Mr Robin Bray, a director of the firm, said in his statement that the pickets were carrying on in the same way as before the order was made.

Business was almost at a standstill and few lorries were getting through. He confirmed that his business would close at the end of next week.

Mr John Henry Jones, a supervisor employed by the company, gave written evidence that he had joined a rival picket line which encouraged drivers to go through.

He said he had seen how the pickets were organized and noted the numbers of the lorries turned away.

Steer and Turner made only short visits to the picket line. He had not seen them take in stopping vehicles. They always together, he said.

Jones said he had seen two other respondents, Mr Clancy and Mr Watkins, on separate days taking the lead in the organization of the dockers' picket line. (CASE PROCEEDING) the AUEW produces the main anti-Common Market resolution, though it is. confined to completely nationalist precepts.

It declares complete opposition to the Market 'believing that the Treaty of Rome fundamentally denies national independence to the British people'. It is a resolution which Enoch Powell, were he present, would support.

Hertford and Stevenage CLP says simply: 'This conference is resolutely opposed to entry into the Common Market on any terms.' There are signs of strain in the Party over the question of the Jenkinsites and their continuous support for the Tories over Market entry.

No less than eight resolutions call for the resignation or exPicketing by container workers at Royal docks, London, yesterday UNITE TO SAVE JOBS FROM PAGE cede the dockers' demands.

At Dagenham the result is that both dockers and container workers lose out.

Without a policy for united action here, the appearance dockers' pickets at a container depot is as it was vividly described by one of the London men whose job is threatened:

'All we see is the dockers arriving and, bang, we're about to lose our jobs.' This is the answer to the Stalinist smear against Workers Press that it is 'pro-container worker' rather than "pro-docker'. What the Stalinist policy has done is breached the traditional solidarity of dockers and • other transport workers; that solidarity in which picket-lines by either group and for whatever reason were sacrosanct.

But there are no grounds for complacency by drivers and depot workers, either. While they are picketing their 'employers are preparing to hit them with the same technological rod they have already used on the dockers.

Today a Lykes-line vessel carrying more than 30,000 tons of containers and loaded bargeunits arrives in the upper reaches of the Thames at Gravesend.

The rapid development of barges and even airships as a cheap, rapid means of transport will cut out many thousands of drivers' jobs.

Entry into the Common Market will bring with it further cuts as non-stop Continental pulsion of Labour MPs who defy conference or Party policy and vote with the Tories or abstain.

ON questions relating to the Party's programme there is a strong swing by constituency parties towards nationalization policies.

Several calls are made for resuscitation of Clause IV as a guiding principle of the Party and there are 14 pages on housing, and public ownership of land.

These resolutions, many of them demanding the expropriation of private landholders, are an answer to the Tory speculators and the government's proposal to double council rents.

Although the document is already being characterized as the most 'left' for many years, not a single resolution calls for a political fight to force the Tories out of office.

Mersey port strike move MERSEY dockers' stewards will call for a stoppage throughout the port today in support of 1,600 men in dispute with A. E.

Smith Coggins over manning.

Smith Coggins is one of the big four employers in the port currently engaged in 'exploratory' merger talks. The firm is insisting it has the right to employ unregistered labour on clerical jobs.

Lew Lloyd, local docks secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said it appeared to him Smith Coggins had been 'most bloody-minded'.

Meanwhile in London yesterday, lorry-drivers' pickets spread out to four London docks groups with what the Port of London Authority described as a '100 per cent' effect.

Tilbury, Millwall, the India and the Royal docks were blanketed with pickets who prevented the arrival of most lorries. Unloading was proceeding as normal but few shipments got away from the dock gates.

Pickets at Tilbury claimed they had drawn up a 24-hour rota for the next three weeks.

A meeting of transport drivers' stewards yesterday evening was expected to threaten an even harder line, but demand talks with the dockers' leaders as well. lorres and cross-Channel get under way.

It is dazzlingly clear that a united struggle is needed, but it is equally clear that the demand for nationalization under workers' control requires the removal of the Tory government and cannot be implemented immediately.

The Transport and General Workers' Union must, therefore, be forced to fight for the following policy: 1. No redundancies among either dockers, transport drivers or container workers. 2. A shorter working week. Maintenance of all workers whose jobs are threatened on full pay until the industries can nationalized and planned on socialist lines. 3. Abolition of the TUR. Full rates of pay for all dockers. Work-sharing with no loss of earnings where there is insufficient work. 4. Recall the T&GWU biennial delegate meeting to adopt and plan the fight for these policies. This will mean • FIRSTLY, mobilizing the strength of the union, in united action with the rest of the trade union movement, to force the Tory government to resign. SECONDLY, it will mean the placing of an emergency resolution before the TUC and Labour Party conferences demanding the return of a Labour government which will immediately sully nationalize the ports and roadhaulage without compensation under workers' control. July 20, 1972.