They're Coming in the Window
Socialist Press1976 1976-09-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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A message from Car chiet Jack Jones and urges.
Hugh Scanlon the other N KEEP Jeople in HYORKING:
Central to this was the threat to expel the NUS from the TUC. This step would then have been used as a pretext for arguing that the seamen were "no longer in the labour movement" - a label now attached to any opponents of the TUC bureaucracy. And this would have been followed by issuing instructions to dockers and transport drivers to work scab ships.
Slater, who has been a consistent supporter of the capitalist arguments used to back up the social contract was in no position to resist this pressure.
Had he opposed the social contract from the start and adopted a clear position of defending the living standards of his members through demanding a 120,000 the Group sliding scale of wages to keep pace with inflation, he would have gone in better equipped.
The betrayal of Slater using his casting vote to call off the strike is that his action prevented the seamen from smashing the social contract there and then.
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about the economy arguments But battered with pound and the need to save the Labour government' at all costs, he was in no position to see that the strike-breaking policies of the TUC would have stood little
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