the entire weight of the most powerpolicies are attacking the living stan dards of the vast majority of the population.
Instead of using this power, they choose to try and woo the Tory Government with sweet talk half-baked concessions. But the Torica are not fools - they will only settle for a firm guarantee that the TUC will underwrite Phase 3.
TUC, having placed itself on slippery slope of compromise will be inclined to go further. Having rejocted the opportunity to lead the working class movement forward. it has left itself with little alternative but to retreat even further, Already Scanion is assuring the Tories that the national engineering claim is not a challenge to Phase 3, A massive movement of protest - a lood of resolutions from all trade union bodies, mass rallies, stoppages and lobbies organised against a TUC sell-out over Phuse 3. Every trade unionist concerned with de lending the living standards of himself and his fellow workers must demand that the TUC break off all talks with the Government, and backs the miners with the weapon that can most effectively unite the working class and most readily defeat the La gencral strike to bring down the Government.
TUC General the part of the bureaucrats. The organisation of such an offensive must now be the central concern of rank-and-file militants, This means: 1. Organise strike action against Phase Three: in particular campaign for a national strike by the miners, engineers and railmen. 2. For a fighting alliance against Phase Three: in particular, co-ordinated action by the miners, engineers, and railmen. 3. Defend the Shrewsbury workers: for a national building strike and mass industrial solidarity action to free the 3, reverse the verdicts and end the trials. 4. Make the bosses bear the cost of the three day week: no wage reductions or redundancies because of the Tory lockout.
The final manoeuvre which the Tory Government will resort to in order to disorient the workers" movement will be a soup general election. Here again the union bureaucrats will prove the Tories" best friends by calling for an end to all industrial action until after the clection.
Such a move would be worth millions of votes for the Tories, because it would allow them to pose as masters of the situation' something which would be impossible if the election were to take place while the whole country was laid-off two days a week Secretary Len Murray (centre) at Wednesday's meeting of trade union leaders. This meeting made it perfectly ciear that the bureaucrats cannot lead the movement forward in the fight against the Tory Government. Rank-and-file militants must organise through Councils of Action in every area to take the leadership of the struggle and launch a working class counter-offensive against the Tory attacks. and industrial struggles were on the upsurge.
The way to defeat the Tories at the polls is by stepping-wo industrial action. Mick McGahey, Scottish miners' President, told the Scottish NUM delegate conference on Monday that miners should intensify their overtime ban during an election to give them more time to work for the defeat of the Tories, Far better would be a national miners strike and the dispatch of flying pickets to arginise mass anti-Tory demonstrations around the country. Let the outcome of the next general election be decided at the factory gates and in the streets - where the workers movement has Central to all the tasks facing the trade union movement in the weeks ahead is the construction of Councils of Action, representative of the whole lahour movement, in every locality. Such bodies could organise maximum support for the campaige against the TUC sell-out, build mass support for Shrewsbury militants, provide local coordination of the struggle against the crisis, and launch a camprign of industrial and mans action against the Government in the event of an election.
Through such activities these bodies would establish deep roots in the workers' struggles and, if nationally coordinated, would become a power against which no Government and no trade union bureaucrat could stand. The Liverpool Trades Coucert fas reSHREWSBURY CONFERENCE not tie the campaign to them. There
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