AS POLICE AND TROOPS THREATEN DOCKERS PARLIAMENT ENDS IN COALITION MOOD

PARLIAMENT yesterday went into summer recess until October 31 leaving the Tories to rule with the Emergency Powers Act through the authority of the Privv Council. During the next ten weeks parliamentcould well be replaced by a form arv democracy Privy Council dictatorship which is answerable nobody.

A government spokesman confirmed yesterday that emergency strike-breaking committees are now operating in all major ports and the troops are poised to go in 'as soon as the minister gives a decision' Tha antarnmant hac haan ahle ta arm itself with these enormous powers due to the cowardly and treacherous policies of the leaders in the labour and trade union movement.

As parliament broke up and Tory ministers girded their loins to unleash their onslaught on the dockers, where were these so-called "leaders'? • VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was chairing an economic committee meeting at Congress House at which such weighty topics as local radio were under debate. • A stone's throw down the road at the National Ports Council JACK JONES, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, was again in cahoots with Lord - Aldington, the merchant banker, ex-Tory MP and London ports chief.

These time-wasting talks are deliberately aimed at creating : the illusion that the crisis of docks jobs brought about by containerization can be 'solved' by some piecemeal formula. • At his London flat HAROLD WILSON spent the day busily packing before setting off today for his traditional sojourn in the Scilly Isles. • When parliament debated the emergency powers on Tuesday night the Labour Party refused even to divide the House on the issue. This means that they really support the Tories' decision to seize sweeping powers to smash the dockers.

only this collaboration at the top-Wilson supporting Heath over the dockers and over Ulster, Feather signing deals with the Tories and the CBI, Jones rephrasing documents with Aldington—which is keeping the Tories in office.

Yet no docker has been to the Nation al Industrial Relations Court. No docker has paid any fines.

Nor has any building worker. And they have just steamrollered their union leadership into rejecting a paltry pay offer and demanded an immediate national strike.

The battle lines in this dual power situation are now clearly defined.

In this knife-edge situation the building of Councils of Action becomes imperative. These councils, consisting of all tendencies and groups in the labour and trade union movement, must prepare to defend the working class from the Tory offensive and prepare for the General Strike to bring down the government. • Support the dockers and building • End all talks with the Tories, port employers. • Return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies including repe al of the Industrial Relations Act, nation alization of the docks and road transpor t, banks and basic industries.

After every were arrested and dragged wharf gates.

Ugly running

out after each police push.

One docker, an star, Mike Smith, ankle injured by Maria. He told me: a pathway for the Hordes of police force a tanker through Keadby pickets POLICE BRUTALITY erupted yesterday on the dockers' picket line near Scunthorpe. A force of about 500 police launched mass charges at the pickets to drive a pathway for timber lorries attempting to leave a private wharf on the River Trent.

charge dockers indiscriminately through the One was pushed to the ground and assaulted by about eight or nine uniformed officers.

fights broke co-ordinated ex-rugby had his a Black We made an but it Ulster-style search of flying dock pickets