Some of those outside Congress House on 20 November reeognised the naod for strike action rather than just another lobby to free the 2 The official union campaign to free the Shrewsbury 2 has the urgency of a funeral march.
First there was the UCATT call that the TUC should see Jenkins and organise a lobby. Meanwhile the Communist Party switched off the unofficial strikes and all eyes were turned towards Congress House.
Resolutions poured into the TUC to mount a campaign of agitation and propaganda including demonstrations.
On 18 November the TUC's finance and general purposes committee met including represcntatives of all three building workers unions. Not having to worry about a growing strike movement, the worthies at Congress House put forward the "original" suggestion that there should be another TUC delegation to see Jenkins. Perhaps the TUC delegations like the tea and biscuits served by the Home Secretary. CONSISTENT However the CP are consistent and very patient. By the next day it was urging support for the lobby called by the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions and the Building Workers' Charter. The lobby - surprise, surprise was going to Congress House!
The first call for a TUC lobby of Parliament had been made on 3 November. Seventeen days later the CP was still calling for a lobby ACTIN of the TUC to get them to lobby Parhament.
On the 20 November the lobby for the lobby took place. This time the TUC "moved". It agreed in principle to organise a lobby. However it "forgot' to set a date. Thinking that it might have a change from Jenkins tea and biscuits to Wilson's cakes and sherry it called for an "urgent meeting with the premier. PROGRESS Well progress is progress, even though Warren and Tomlinson's sentences are ticking by, so leading CP member and LCDTU chairman Kevin Halpin welcomed the TUC decision.
Len Murray was not so euphoric as Halpin, He explained that a final decision on the TUC nutional lobby would depend on the projected meeting with Wilson and on the outcome of the application on behalf of the two men for leave lo appeal to the House of Lords. The date for the application is 3 December.
Out and around Westminster things are moving even slower on the Shrewsbury front. Jenkins politcly refuses to discuss the tao imprisoned workers explaining that it is sub judice which is a fancy Latin phrase meaning he intends lo prop up the capitalist law and as far as he is concerned Warren and Tomlinson can stay in jail. Anyhow Jenkins is too busy scheming how he can use KARLA TO PREC the Birmingham bombings to attack workers rights to bother about The jailing of the Shrewsbury 2 and the Prebbles" High Court antipicketing decision have flashed. the green light for the police to step up their harrassment of even the most peaceful picket lines. While the TUC leaders play break a picket line and the CP pleads with them to join the lobby game The ruling class use their courts to attack the labour movement.
industrial action, neither the TUC nor the Labour leaders will move. By subordinating the campaign to simply putting pressure on the union bureaucrats and Labour Ministers, the CP is On the 28 November there will be a lobby of the delegates to the Labour Party Conference. The North West Regional Council of GICSS 70 GROTE GL Abroad.
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