movement.
class supporters the reply they so richly deserve.
the Labeur Government which decided to leave fines already collocted). the Industrial Relations Act on the books, and which allowed Donaldson to keep warming les 3 pay laws bench at the NIRC funds. Employment Secretary Michael Foot is busy cracking the whip of the Tories" Phase 3 over the heads of the trade union movement.
The trade union bureaucrats have done nothing to prepare for the present situation. Scinlon and the AUEW leadership have known for weeks that the present confrontation was on the way. But action was put off until tho very last minute.
The Transport Workers are facing a similar threat from the NIRC, but Jack Jones is sitting on his hands and letting the engineers go into the fight alone.
The national engineers' strike opens up a big opportunity for the workers* movement. Massive solidarity actions from other sections, lead kers movement. ing towards a general strike, could not only dump their whole armoury of anti-union laws In the coming strucule we must fight for:
*The immediate repeal of tle Industrial Relations Act, the dumping of all proceedings THE decision of NIRC judge Sir John Donaldson to seize the assets of the Engineering union is nothing less than a declaration of war on the trade union After much hesitation the Engineers" executive have finally decided to call an indefinite national strike. This is a first step towards giving Donaldson and his ruling Donaldson's attack on the unions has been under the Act, and the nullification of all sided and abbetted by Labour's policies. Ii was NIRC judgements (including the repayment of *The immediate repeal of the Tories Phase *The freeing of the six jailed Shrewsbury While Donaldson is grabbing the AUEW building workers, and an unconditional pardon for all those convicted in the Shrewsbury frame-up trials. *The immediate introduction by the Government of measures to abolish the conspiracy laws (on the basis of which, as Shrewsbury shows, trude unionists can be imprisoned for just organising a picket), and to guarantee the legal right to picket.
A victory such as this would rip the capitalist offensive against working class living standards to shreds. The capitalists would be robbed of some of their most important wea-2 pons, and a new, powerful spirit of unity and struggle would he forged throughout the wor All the struggles of working people-for the block Donaldson's attack but force Labour to engineers' claim, better pay in the social ser-• Floes, equal pay for women, the defense of wor king class incomes against inflution-could make 2 tremendous leap forward on the basis of such a victory. ations for a general strike.
to scrap all anti-trade union laws.
ORGANISE FOR VICTORY! *TWU members should immediately strike and join the struggle - and at the same time demand that thoir leadership calls an official, national strike. *Joint bodies should be set up between the A JEW and the TWU at all levels factory, district, and nationally) to coordinate the struggle. *Mass solidarity actions - strikes and demonstrations - should be launched by every other section of the trade tininn movement. *Militants in every area should set up local Action Committees to build the struggle: organise flying pickets to spread the strikes, set up self-defense for picket lines and union property, make prepar*The demand must go up from every corner of the trade union movement for the TUC to immediately call a general strike to force the Labour Government 8000 people demonstrated their solidarity with the Chilean resistance in London last wankend. /Soo * fulf story p. 2) The NIRC attack on the engineers showe charly the present situation. in British politica. The ruling cla suffered impor tint defeats with the miners victory and the fall of Heath, but the economic and social crisis does not aliow them to let up their attacks on the working class But the position of the working clas is very strong. The miners' strike and the fall of Heath wore big victaries far thi working class. No section into struggle againat Phese 3, with the feated. Many sections which did not fight Phases rave and been able to sue: perspective for struggle-for example, the strike is the central LANCE TILL CHIEF DUE THEIR VER Under the Tory Government the de mand for the general strike wos first con nected with the Industrial Relation Act, and then for the need to remove the Government itself. Under Labour the sio pan of the general strike is necessary to defeat assaults on the working class by the employers, as in the NIAC decision, and as a way of gaining certain key working class THE INN, SIRST HER SHEMO SINISATALUMS In the case of the NERC decaion the The AUEW executive has taken the right Now the task of militants is to get the rest of the working class out in support as well. The firee objective is ceviously the TGWU.. which is aio threatened by the NIRC Action cormitteet must be formed and flyirg pickets orgenised to get out all workers in support of the engineers. Ac sion from the miners would be particutarly moortant. Mcanwhile, the call mus go out for the TUC to call a strike of all Labour must be forced to immediately
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