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Red Weekly No. 151, 20 May 1976 · p. 4 of the scan · 283 words

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of takes place. tional or democratic validity, and delegates to Camden Trades Council should press home this point when the next properly convened meeting In the meantime, the lessons ory. should be absorbed both in Camden and elsewhere. Militants should note the danger of the advice that ing' Rule 14 is meaningless. The behaviour of its supporters in Camden over the last two months has shown to what lengths they will go to gain acceptance of the TUC dictate.

Even the TUC would not give It was the same campaign and the same principled opposition which secured the removal of GregA mid shouts of laughter, he explamned unal ne was resignine to concentrate on home decoratThe campaign against Rule 14 will go on, both in Camden and elsewhere. It will go on in individual unions, in trades councils, and in a national campaign leading up to the TUC Congress in September.

What the experience of Camden has now manifestly shown is that the fight can only be waged on the basis of no concessions. No concessions to Rule 14, no concessions to the TUC policemen and informers, no concessions on the principle of workers democracy IMPORTANT The all-London meeting called by the Defence Committee for all trade unionists opposed to Rule 14 will now take place on Saturday 10 July.

All trade unionists should put resolutions through their branches to be for warded to their union executives, calling on them to oppose Rule 14 at the TUC They should also get sponsorship from their branches and trade councils for the 10 July meeting and the lobby of the TUC on 6 September.

Details from: Defence Committee, 164b Haverstock Hill, London NW3.

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