[Report from Crosmaglen THE PROTESTS BY New Zealand's…]
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Report from Crosmaglen THE PROTESTS BY New Zealand's working class against the visit of a United States nuclear warship approached general strike proportions last week. Members of all the major unions participated in stoppages against the visit.
Behind this immediate protest lies mounting anger throughout the New Zealand • labour movement against the Tory government's savage wage controls:
The government's response to the anti-US protests was to strengthen the already draconian measures it plans to introduce to attack trade union rights.
It now intends to make all strikes illegal except those on health or safety grounds or in support of an annual official wage claim.
• Unions and individual workers participating in political, solidarity or unofficial strikes would be fined. Leaders of such strikes would be barred from union office and the government would have power to order workers to end strikes.
This amounts to nothing less than an attempt to destroy the trade union movement.
Militant workers now face one overwhelmingly important task -to i force their reluctant union leaders into calling an indelinite general strike to force the Tory government out of office.