Tuc Defends Law on Pav
Socialist Press1975 1975-09-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Jack Jones and Len Murray in Blackpool Meeting just before the opening of the TUC conference in Blackpool, the General Council of the TUC voted 25 votes to 10 against an ASTMS resolutio opposing statutory reserve powers to back Wilson's £6 pay limit.
This means that the TUC having hidden nearly two months behind the illusion that the pay restrictions were "voluntary", is now not simply accepting the use of the law by a Labour government to control wages, but defending it against attack by those unions which uphold free collective bargaining.
This is the outcome of a whole stage-managed plan to foist wage-cutting policies on the working class. Jack Jones has been at the centre of this plan from the start, and railroaded the scheme through the T&GWU Conference in July, using as his main argument the lie that a voluntary agreement was the best way to avoid legislation. In fact it has been shown that voluntary capitulation was the essential prelude to Wilson's laws.
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e sceni : then shifted to thi 11. Arthur Scargill and the retreat of the Communist Party enabled the right wing to sidestep a claim for £100 per week. Shortly after that crucial retreat, the NUM executive took the treacherous decision not only to recommend support for Wilson's pay laws, but to give the government policy a boost through a ballot of miners. The ballot was anything but the decisive acceptance Wilson was looking for. Even given the participation in the ballot of supervisory stati (who would vote for legislation) and a complete ly fraudulent question on the ballot aper, asking if miners wanted to helo "fight inflation" , the right wing could only whip up a 3-2 majority.
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To follow up this there have been various press flurries by Jones and Murray to lend some air of credibility to the TUC talk of "preserv-. ing jobs": Carefully vague proposab have been leaked to the papers on calls for a government programme of public works. At the same time a viciously nationalist campaign for import controls has been kicked of by the TUC bureaucracy, to create the illusion of protecting "British" jobs (at the expense of workers elsewhere).
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:, Wednesday September 3rd, 1975 Clubs attacked the Provisionals in a statement which claimed that "Having declared a ceasefire against the British army they have declared open season against non-catholics" This statement, issued at a time