and Socialist importance of united acArthur Scargill was here last week ana ne nienighted attempts to close Orgreave pit in Yorkshire. I told him that if a call comes, it is incumbent on explain to members that we should carry out our mandate for acnow dropped the closure threat on Orgreave. It shows don't include a but industrial action - you They' ve had all this time for talk.
Ut course our national president. Joe has claimed the February victory as his own. that he's done it by his own prowess, but it was the action not the talk that made the Tories You've talked money for investment.
scarolll has said that a tour-dav week coula create 20, 000 jobs.
The four-day week has been a longstanding national policy of our union. We'd also like to cut out overtime, unfortunately this policy is not applied rigidly.
There are a small number workers, for example on safety, who are expected to do certain hours. But it would certainly be feasible for an overtime ban on other jobs.
When we talk of a shorter working week, this should be with no loss of wages. It is not the same thing as short all-out strike. If get will the nurses and the firefighters.' Foot and Aiex Kilson are Fisher Michael full of empty promises.
The cheers given for Benn when his name was mentioned showed where the labour movement's allegiance lies.
It was left to the only wolllall platform, Dilys Hardacre, socaKe. on the to point any way forward.
fed tokenism, ' she said. 'I'm a woman and a worker.
would have been far better it we hadn't had to put up with chauvinism both on and off the platform.
And Dilys ended her right of women to work by fighting speech ine making a for the labour movement to support 'positive discriminatime working.
There's another confusion, too. A lot of people think that early retirement is the same as voluntary reaundancy. If they put all the money from redundancies there would be school leavers.
What about the policies in the Wales TUC plan, which are put forward as a sociar conract win we noxt Labour covernment We don't agree with this. You can't really talk about that sort of set-up until you've got which we haven't.
Do you mean set-ups like planning agreements?
Y ec table, if what you are saying is being taken notice of. You may plan certain strategies. For instance, I don't think nurses and ambulance drivers should be forced to strike. There should be a Dian (TOT adequate wages. can't go into the sort of policies the Wales TUC is proposing in the system we've got in this country.
At the Wales TUC of President) has NUM will pull TUC. Do you agree:
The frustration has built up to such a nels open. I'd like to see a fight from within, but if the lon, so we can go on lo win socialism.' There Was no doubt that Dilys Hardacre struck a vital cora, judging by the applause she received. especially from the women at the rally. But did our leaders really understand?
Not a bit if Alex Kitson's comments were anything to go by: 'Isn't the girl great', he patronised.
The demonstration Thatcher's coffin. And the Labour Party is planning another one in September in Birmingham.
But more and more militants are looking to the Jeans and . Laurence Scotts of this world and more and more they want know the trade and Labour Part leaderships are nowhere to , seen wer une croct Cle.
55, at comocal opportunities for change TUCY socialist You can certainly get round a you the surateges validity.
Conference there Wales stated that if the , then the Wales fetters. • seems no other chanWales TÙC goes ahead with it, one way or another I can see us leaving.
Isn't that a problem? In many right been banging their heads against a wall fo Many are tempted to set , or rank amere oroanisarons oursice me union. argue they should stay and fight to the leadership. Isn't this the same with your position in the Wales Yes, in a way it is. But we are talking of the Wales TUC, not the nationa TUC. The Wales TUC is subservient to the national TUC People hide behind the national TUC for not calling action. Nationally they can't use this excuse.
Tua ver yon right-wing thaha.
ao camaro une last yeart That argument is certainly open. All Emlyn has rightly done is to indicate possibilities these types б.
are developed. On all the points you say, I cannot deny their The Wales TUC could be tremendous. It could still save jobs and services if it had the guts. Organised militant force is needed. It's a pity our leaders aren't as loyal to theirs as the Tories are to theirs. The TUC should be the chains of organisation not the Fragmented we cannot do it, but united in action we could get rid of Thatcher in three weeks.
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