We're at crossroads with Tories says docker

SOUTHAMPTON docks shop steward Denny Harryman believes that the working class has reached the crossroads in its struggle against the Tories. He told our reporter:

At the moment everyone except those closest to the struggle believes that the dockers are locked in a battle with the employers over wages, conditions and jobs.

The majority of dockers, despite the shouts of 'Heath out' on demonstrations, are interested only in getting guarantees of job security.

They want to be sure that tears ben years, and ere i50 their iobs wil stil be there five , ten years', and even sl years' time.

The delegate conference decision to strike at 8 a.m. Friday, July 28, after twice postponing it was a manifestation of the insecurity the dockers felt.

But the Tories are under no illusions. They see this latest resistance of the working class as a direct threat to their way of life. They believed that the Industrial Relations Act would be the instrument to silence the Labour Party, gag the TUC and thẻ unions and castrate the Unhappily for them, as the miners and railwaymen before them, the dockers are in no mood to fall for their gigantic confidence trick.

They realize that this Act can be defeated and it is up to trade unionists everywhere to support them and it is not only the Industrial Relations Act that can be defeated here.

The Tory Party, big business and the whole rotten system is at crisis point and as the workers inflict more defeats, like freeing the jailed dockers, they become more aware of their power and the Tories more hysterical about losing theirs.

The labour movement is at the crossroads. It must not draw back now. Only complete victory will be enough. Anything less will be a sell-out!

Equal pay attacked EQUAL PAY for women could mean a drastic reduction in female employment according to a new report from the Office of Manpower Economics. The Equal Pay Act is due to come into force at the end of 1975.

The findings in a sample of 200 firms showed that many employers favoured men in terms of the comparative costs and productivity of the two.

It also warned that present male-female differentials would have to be altered if equal pay was not to worsen significantly the present rising tide inflation.

Only about a third of women in industry covered by national agreements have so far had discrimination over pay removed or a commitment for its phased removal by 1975. One in nine female manual workers receive rates less than 80 per cent of the male rate.

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