Ucatt Fight
Socialist Press1975 1975-06-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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motion was passed unamimously. The delegate from the Castleford branch spelt out exactly what the resolution entailed. The resolution called ic.: a) A sliding scale of wages - this means that agreements would assure an automatic rise in wages i relation to the increase in the price of consumer goods - this rate to be determined by trade union committees. b) Sliding scale of hours where redundancies are threatened - all th work on hand would be shareo ou., within each trade (obviously bricklayers should not do joinery and vice versa) with average wages not being lower than in the old working week. This work sharing would be run by elected trade union committees. c) Programme of public works -this would finance works to ensure full employment, and to guarantce wis ntial services such as hospitas and schools. This should be linked with nationalisation of the building industry and land so that private fitms do not drain off this finance in profit. created).
continued from front page Their refusal to fight handed the advantage to Wilson. They would not turn the 2 - 1 "no" decision at the Labour Party Special Conference into a national campaign and neutralised the Labour Party apparatus, while Wilson spoke as the government.
To the extent the left' fought the EEC they put forward a capitalist position - that remaining in the Market would be bad for "Britain" lie British capitalism ] a ' bringing in the nationalist conception of "sovereignity" -refusing to raise the class questions or socialist alternative.
By putting forward this positior