WE ARE very grateful to the TUC for helping us reach this understanding. the acknowledge the great help we have had from the TUC James Urquhart, British Rail's operations director.
that the TUC leaders crossed enemy lines in the war against the Tories.
Finance and General Purposes Committee, the inner cabinet - has turned on ASLEF and the rest of the labour movement who supported the traindrivers. While 'grave concern' at BR's decision to sack strikers, the TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee ASLEF in the back. In so doing it has turned on the rest of the labour movement, who supported the train drivers.
that Thatcher wasn't joking when she Falklands spirit to declare war on the unions. They knew that when the crunch came over the ASLEF and NUR sackings, the trade union would have rallied as it did to the dockers a decade ago. So like the general strike they rushed for cover.
than the right wing dominated Finance and General Purposes Committee, wheeled out to deal with the lorry drivers strike in This ten-man body includes scabs like Terry Duffy, Tom David Basnett, Geoffrey Drain and Len Murray. It can avoid the complications meeting of the Council where position would such leaders as Scargill of the and What more damning proof have The TUC to work.
expressing solidarity steel, has stabbed the traitors These misleaders realised the called on the movement Pentonville unions cowards of 1926 And what better vehicle fightback. which was last 1978.
Frank Chapple, Jackson, of a full TUC General firm left op- has come halt. miners' union. This right wing Mafia of Labour Praty witchhunters have taken it upon themselves to extend attacks on extra-parliamentary action left policies. They threatened ASLEF with expulsion from the TUC unless it ac. cepted the Committee's deal with the British Rail Board and instruct its members to return These enemies in our ranks must be brought to order. The unity and resolve of the train drivers and the overwhelming of other workers prove there is a mood to take on the Tories. The struggles in Fords and now rail show that unless of the TUC , are dealt with, workers will be scabbed on every time. The left in the unions has to take to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Arthur Scargill has called for a conference of the Triple Alliance of rail, mine and steel workers to transform it from a piece of paper into a fighting force of rank and file workers to defend jobs conditions and ASLEÊ workers are organising to lobby the North West region of the TUC calling for it to disassociate itself from the TUC sellout and organise a Railworkers are also making plans to lobby the recall conference of the NUR special General Meeting to demand action against the Rail Board's ultimatum.
The demands of those lob. biers should resound through the conference hail when the TUC has its annual congress in early September. The last year brought enough treachery. It's time to call a Socialist Challenge 23 July 1962 page 9