Guerrilla gas strikes planned

KEEP LEFT SOCIALISTS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Nati Speaking Contes work. This is the task the Tories are preparing while Feather trips back and forth from Downing Street and swaps his homilies with the capitalist Press.

It would be fatal if any worker was deceived by the TUC antics once more.

The truth is that a mass movement on wages is building up within industry. Gasworkers, electricity supply workers, civil servants, actors and carworkers are, or soon will be, caught up in the freeze.

Why should these workers fight alone? They face exactly the same enemy-the Tory government.

Even more important, why should they hold their militancy back?

The increases they demand will not be allowed in full under phase two of the Tory offensive. Every day wasted in this fight strengthens the government.

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CIENICIAL WEEKEY PAPER A to TUC secretary Victor Feather _ 10 Downing Streel. He was making another trip there on Thursday.

The Ford workers have a particular responsibility. If one strong and militant section of the working class gave a lead, others would fall in behind almost immediately. Such an action would destroy the abysmal compromise by the TUC.

It would also expose this government for what it is—a weak administration relying on the servile trade union leaders and its own bombastic statements.

Workers should reject this latest round of class-collaboration by uniting and pressing ahead with action on their wage claims.

No section should delay negotiations to wait for the phase two proposals.

Workers must force the TUC to break off all contact with this government and recall a special congress to prepare for the offensive which lies ahead-the industrial and political conditions to force the government to resign must be created.

BUILD THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS STOP RISING PRICES FORCE THE TORIES TO RESIGN East India Hall, East India Dock Road, Lon‹ SPEAKERS :

GARY GURMEET (Editor Keep Left) GERRY HEALY (SLL national secretary) BRIAN PRANGLE (YS Student Society)

Dance 8 p.m.-11 p.m. to White Band and Ram .

FROM DAVID MAUDE GUERRILLA strikes now seem certain to hit the gas industry within the next ten days unless the Tories withdraw their ban on pay negotiations.

Transport and General Workers' Union gas delegates yesterday declared their "total opposition' to the ban, which they described as 'a vicious attack on workers in the gas industry'.

They urged their leaders to call joint action with the General and Municipal Workers' Union not later than January 17.

Calls for all-out strike action were rejected by the 26 T&GWU delegates, who represent 5,000 of the industry's workers.

Such action would be entirely warranted in view of the government's attitude, said a statement from the meeting. But it would cause unprecedented hazards to the public.

So a majority of delegates came down in favour of selective guerrilla strikes, overtime bans and withdrawal of co-operation.

This policy will be urged on G&MWU leaders in advance of their delegate conference on Monday. The G&MWU, which organizes 42,000 gasworkers, is already under strong pressure for some form of national action.

Tom Crispin, national secretary of the T&GWU's power and TURN TO BACK PAGE BUILD THE WEEKLY KEEP LEFT TODAY AT 2.30 P.M.