PHASE TWO AND THE UNIONS A SHAM FIGHT OR A REAL FIGHT?

HOSPITAL AI VCILLARY worki Transport and General Workers' Union yesterday called for an all-out indefinite strike against the called for an Heath state pay laws.

Twenty-seven delegates meeting in London decided unanimously to strike in opposition to the government's pay policy and the offer of an increase of £1.84p' The transport union proposal will now go to a conference the ancillary workers, Of all four unions in the Friday.

The National Union of Public Employees' press officer, Mr Bernard Dix, says hospital ancillary workers will fight for their wage increase—'even if it ultimately brings us into conflict with the law' of whom have a basic These workers, thousands week, are claiming a wage of less than £20 per £4 increase.

But strike action to gain even a modest demand such as this is already against the law. It is illegal under the Tory legislation which imposes state control of wages. Yet the hospital workers have decided on strike action by ballot.

The working class can draw only clusion: having reached the point demands for a reasonable standard of against the law, then such laws destroyed.

This is not an individual question, but a class question. The 10 million workers organized in the unions do not fight for wages as individuals, but through their class organizations—the trade unions.

In order to protect their livelihoods, these millions have no alternative but to break the Tory pay and anti-union laws. And that involves removing the people who made those laws-the Tory government itself.

'Left' talk by itself is not action and • 'left talk' is not dangerous at a time when it is provocations are being prepared.

Heath and the Tories are taking definite steps towards dictatorship in preparation for massive state repressions against the working class and the Marxist movement in the coming struggles.

This is what lies behind the National Industrial Relations Court and the Phase I WO The Tories intend dictatorship by th government, implemented through court! police, to reach into every corner of life The future of every party and political tendency based on the working class is tied to the preservation of democratic rights.

That is why a statement from the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League on January 19 called for the unity of all working-class organizations— including the Labour Party, the Communist Party, the International Socialists and the International Marxist Group—in defence of democratic rights.

The defence of these rights and of working class living standards must be turned into an attack by uniting the working class in a general strike belonging to strike at which living are enough. Isolated only wrong, but well known that legislation. le central