UPW chief raises right-wing bogey Fighting Tories scares Jackson

ONLY said Post the most TUC's blessing.

the inevitable.' gress.

TWO alternatives Office workers' forthright decla recent months.

The alternatives were: negotiation and • cooperation with the Tories, on the basis of statutory control of both wages and prices, or 'massive', , all-out industrial action to change the mind of the government'.

In an hour-long, partly off-the-cuff speech to the TOMORROW Special comment In tomorrow's Workers Press Labour Correspondent David Maude will be commenting in detail on the special conference Bournemouth.

Union of Post Office Workers' special conference here, Jackson argued fiercely for co-operation.

All-out industrial action, he said, would not bring about the replacement of the Tories by Labour. Nationalist illusions FROM IAN YEATS IN SOUTH WALES SOME 250 delegates from 25 trade unions and most of Wales' 51 trades councils defied TUC advice on Saturday and went ahead with a special conference to set up a Welsh Trade Union Congress.

Conference chairman, right-wing Merthyr Tydfil Labour councillor and Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' district organizer Mr Tal Lloyd said he hoped there would be no permanent split with the English' TUC.

He said he believed the next meeting of the embryo Welsh Congress to be held at Llandrindod Wells next May would have the Mr Lloyd said: "The grass roots have made Call ancl nave now reached a point of decision. We are not intending to be in conflict with the lUC or should the TUC be ir conflict with us. These must be a recognition of Communist Party member and Welsh NUM executive member Mr Dai Francis, who shared the platform with Lloyd and Welsh region Transport and General Workers' Union secretary Mr Tom Jones, said was the of the TUC to act the anders strike which had promoted _thA demand for a Welsh ConSaturday's conference at the Hotel Metropole, Llandrindod Wells, was sponsored by the T&GWU and National Union of MineThe Congress tone was set by Welsh T&GWU assistant secretary Mr George Wright, who said bat as a result of the face the trade union movement leader Tom Jackson yesterday in one rations from the reformist right-wing FROM DAVID MA CORRESPONDENT it wouldn't necessarily lead eyen to a General Election, but could swiftly lead to the replacement of Edward Heath by Enoch Powell'.

And if there was an election, he said, the experiences of May-June 1968 in France and 1926 in Britain suggested that vastly more repressive government would be elected than the present one.

THE BRUTAL assault on unarmed women by British troops in Belfast on Saturday night is a serious portent of Westminster's plans for Ulster's future.

Why did the army deliberately over-react by sending an assortment of bulldozers, armoured cars, a water cannon and a considerable body of troops to disperse 40 women?

And why did the officerin-charge provoke a riot situation, despite the protesters' respect for army barricades and Mr Michael Farrel's public appeal for restraint and 'no violence'?

For answers to these Right wing creates Welsh TUC Tal Lloyd Tories' last budget, 'the British economy is winding up' But, he said, 'we are not getting our fair share of what is going on'. In England there were five workers chasing every one job, but in Wales the ratio was 12 to one.

Mr Wright said one of the first demands Welsh TUC should be for UDE OUR LABOUR • IN BOURNEMOUTH The Labour Party would be condemned to five years out of office.

Jackson, who was ostensibly reporting to delegates on the progress of the union's £5 pay claim, has long been an advocate of keeping politics out of unions.

But politics-the politics of collaboration with the Tories-formed the centre of his speech. for Ister? questions, we shall have to turn to the latest and most sinister intrigues of Whitehall in Ulster in preparation for the implementation of the notorious White Paper.

Having failed to break the resistance of Protestant and Catholic workers by internment, arrest, special tribunals etc, the Tories have decided to pursue an even tougher policy.

They are giving greater powers to the army while maintaining the facade of civilian administration led by William Whitelaw.

Inspired rumours from Lisburn already indicate MAT.U.C Dal Francis a public finance corporation to direct investment in Wales and bring about the conditions for full employment. Trade unions would play a leading role in the new body.

Wright condemned the British Steel Corporation's decision to axe 18,000 jobs in the Principality BSC is He said: "The acting like businessmen, government.

that Lord Carrington, Defence Secretary and notorious hardliner on Ulster, is to take full charge of Ulster affairs, when the White Paper is announced.

There are many aspects of this move to open dictatorship.

Most notable has been the extensive use of SAS murder squads to exacerbate sectarian feeling and create fear in the ghetto.

Lord Balniel admitted in parliament that "plainclothes surveillance squads* had opened fire at least on 20 occasions.

More recently the criminate shooting VALES financiers and capitalists.

If they have money to invest we will tell them where to invest it because it is our money' An economic policy document before the Congress said: 'In the light of the patent failure. of successive governments to stimulate the Welsh economy and provide balanced industrial growth it is incumbent upon the Welsh TUC to formulate an alternative programme for the economic tion of Wales» reconstrucThe document called for:

• Increased job creation in areas of 'emergent industry.

• Increased ing throu ecoromy.

indis public spendghou t the • The setting up of a public finance corporation. • More development of Wales transport facilities.

• The diversification of the activities of nationalized The Congress agreed the proposals of a working party which reported on the feasibility of a Welsh TUC on December 18.

The report, which was approved overwhelmingly on Saturday, stressed that the Welsh Congress would remain affiliated to the English TUC and give it 'strong support.

Delegates to the congress are to be elected basis of one pe 2,000 members and to 1 epresent BRIEFLY