relations with which the EEF agrees. Since this legislation gives Government wide powers of intervention, allowing it to determine wage rates directly, much of the Act becomes unnecessary.
The statement also testifies to the damage done by working class opposi tion to the Act. The unjons have failed to register, cooling-off orders and secret ballots haven't worked, and many of its provisions concerning the right not to belong to a trade union add nothing to existing common law, but have resulted in incidents like the Goad case becoming major points of class conflict.
AMENDED The EEF suggests that the Act should be amended to provide little more than a back-up to the Counter-Inflation legislation, Hence a reformed Industrial Relations Act might be of some use in some matters concerning will be ruled out of order anything that will defest inflation. In the confusion still reigns following Scanion's recent re marks indicating willingness to talk about amendments. And the current G&MWU annual conference is discussing a new Industrial Relations Act. - that is, further attempts to regulate the class struggle by using the state, and a cover for doing i deal with the Government over the present Act, If the Government accepts amend ments to the Act, the TUC will no doubt claim that it has won the battle and all that rumains is to tidy up loose ends. But incomes policy, is aimed to undermine the very organised strength of the working class which threw the Act into such chaos in the first place. The trade un on movement must totally reject anv form of industrial Relations Act or Inside and outside the Court indicated that one wing of the capitalist state, at least, has little doubt on this point. Armed police were strategically placed on the roof of the court building. guard dogs patrolled the streets, all passing traffic from lorries to babies' prams was stopped and searched, and no less than six coach-loads of police were on slandby in case of an armed assault.
Entry to the courtroom was restricted to the select few, and they were required to document almost their very existence. Even such stalwarts as the Daily Telegraph reporters had to submit to this laborious procedure. PREJUDICES The hearings began with prosecuting counsel lan Kennedy stating his in tention lo show that the four car bombs were products of the one plot and the work of a single group of plotters. strategy of proseculion appears to rest on the belief that a coherent set of facts, no matter how irrelevanl, will serve as sufficient "evidence" to confirm the prejudices of a middle-class Eng lish jury. All Kennedy aims to do, it scums. in to produce delailed facts that show, beyond any reasonable doubt, that 10 were -UCATT UNION OF CONSTRE ALLIED TRADES E TECHNIO) CURRENT ACCOUNT