Moves for all-out action on pay Builders force UCATT back

bluster to cover UCS treachery MASKING their treachery in accepting a four-year no-strike pledge at Clydebank, the Stalinists yesterday called a The ning in he ban ing meeting of shop stewards in Glasgow to put a 'militant' face.

Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions at a bingo hall in Partick called for ore-cay soppage throughout the West of Scotland on September 5 to coincide with the TUC annual meeting at Brighton.

The resolution read: 'We demand that the TUC General Council will cease co-operation with the government and the CBI, but will instead reaffirm the determination of the movement to make the Industrial Relations Act inoperative by total non-co-operation with the refusal to carry out instructions of any court or institution set up under the Act.

'We pledge ourselves to operate a maximum day of stoppages [sic] on September 5 and to send a token delegation to the lobby of the TUC on that day?

This is the face of Stalinism in the trade unions today. Pathetic, worthless one-day stoppages, and 'token' lobbies are suggested in the face of the biggest onslaught that the ruling class has launched against the trade union movement since the Combination Laws.

James Airlie, who chaired the meeting, refused to take a counter-resolution submitted by Stuart McAusland, Central Glasgow • ETU branch, which called for full support for the dockers and the building of Councils of Action to prepare for a General Strike to defeat the Tories.

Criticizing the deal at Clydebank, McAusland said it was no different to the deal being done between the TUC and the CBI.

He attacked James Reid's statement at the weekend that the deal 'is in the finest tradition of the trade union and labour movement'.

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ESPERATELY afraid of the militancy of their own members, the executive e Union of Construction. Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) yesterday decided to reject the building employers' paltry pay ofter.

When demonstration strong demonstration building workers reached the Condon yesterday they tound employers headquarters that their union leaders had failed to turh up for the meeting.

One of the militants told 'If they had been here and had accepted the offer, I dor at know what we would have done to them. There might have been a lynching!' offer follows a decision or she The UCATT rejection of the taken by the Transport and General ' Workers' Union.

At a rally earlier in Hyde Park, delegates from Aberdeen.

Edinburgh, Manchester, York. shire and other areas reported all-out strike action for the full £30, 35-hour week claim.

The mass meeting passed resolution calling for an all-out national strike uildin The marchers demanded the resignation of George Smith, UCATT general secretary, for originally accepting the deal As London's biggest demonstration of building workers wound its way down Oxford Street, the was raised, 'Heath Out'—'£30 for 35 hours now'.

The employers' latest offer falls far short of the original claim.

Craftsmen would only get an immediate rise in basic rate of £3 and labourers £2.60. No cessions have been offered on the demand tor a sporter ing week, but most seriously the proposed agreement is essentially an anti-strike deal.

For the payment of the guaranteed bonus is conditional on an uninterrupted working week. This means eniovers would be able to provoke strikes to cut wages.

Ian Hayes, UCATT member trom Bolton, Lancs, told mer *Every site is out in Manchester and they totally reject this offer.

'When I heard of the sell-out, I was at first disappointed then angry. they betray us, the branches will demand their resignanon. This fight „Ine every worker must take up. It is the same for everyone with rising prices and the Common Market. workerc have enormold strength in their hands if they vanted to use it.

'If you get a Labour government returned they must nationalize the building industry and end decasualization.' Barnsley surke committee memner Denis Rurnett sald: 'We have not been out for six 60р.

'We have che leaders London demanding resignation because we have lost Faith in them.

Brian Sanderson, T&GWU convenor from Southend, echoed the feeling for a joint struggle with dockers:

'We are all in the same union same struggle. This is not just a anyway and after all it is the wage claim-it's our future. we lose this one, we are in trouble.

Yesterday's massive show of militancy throughout the country is a complete indictment of the Communist Party support for limiting the struggle to a selective strike policy.

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WIRES OF THESE RED SHEI Yorkshire T&GWU bullders at the Hyde Park rally London for yesterday's lobby. Almost every building site in Yorkshire is out on strike for the claim.

Dave Burrows, one of many young workers who made the trip, told Workers Press: It's not the local leaders we have to worry about, it's the top brass down in London.

'First they bring us out on strike and at the first opportunity they try to sell us out. The offer is useless and they won't get away with it. If they try we will kick them out.' in full support of the campaign Preston building workers to extend the strike into national action.

Alan Moon, a militant on one of the sites, said: 'We won't get the full claim under this government.' His call for a national stoppage was also supported by Frank Harkin, a labourers' shop steward.

Glasgow yesterday, over 3,000 building workers demonstrated through the city against the CAl leadership. The march took up the cries of 'Smith Out' and No Sell-Out'.

A mass meeting afterwards voted unanimously to stay out indefinitely until their demands are met and to picket any site not yet out on strike in the Glasgow area.

Birmingham building workers yesterday • occupied the Social Security main office in Radford Street and demanded that a special strike centre be set up to handle their claims.

The men declared that they would not quit the building until they had received assurances that they would get benefits to which they are entitled.

Several hundred men part in the occupation.

Earlier between 3,000 and 4,000 building workers marched through the city centre to a meeting in Digbeth Civic Hall in support of the claim.

They were addressed by the regional secretary of UCATT, Ken Barlow, and local militant from the Bryant site in Woodgate Valley, Peter Carter. Both speakers said that the telegrams sent from all regions to the national executive in London indicated the solidarity and determination of the builders to win their full claim.

The meeting voted unanimously to reject the employers' offer of £23 for skilled men and £19.60 for labourers. Moreover it was decided that if the national executive meeting in London were to accept this 'insulting' offer, the regions would go ahead with the strike until the claim was won. Thursday August 10, 7.30 p.m. END THE TUC TALKS VICTORY TO THE ABOUR LEAGUE PUBLIC MEETING CONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUAR LONDON, WC1.

ALIZE DOCKS AND TRANSPORT MAKE THE TORIES RESIGN Speakers:

Larry Cavanagh, dock worker G. Healy, SLL national secretary