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attacks on their living stanı iards -through pay cuts and cuts social services, Comrade Groves went on.

MORE QUICKLY The victory could have been won much more quickly if they had only had the backing of the whole workforce from the start, and the active support of other sections of workers. The fight was a major one - not at all one of fighting for "pin money' as less conscious workers thought.

"Though we didn't realise at first the enormous fight we had taken on, the Company did. They didn't just organise scab lorries -they sent in convoys, American style" said Comrade Groves.

The police had at one point sent five coachloads of men down to force lorries through 25 pickets.

STRUGGLI ing both clauses of the notorious "gag" rule, Model Rule 15, The result, Comrade Mcintyre pointed out, was double-edged: while the right wing had won a temporary victory along with their Cl allies, the depths to which the TUC bureaucrats will stoop was exposed to a wider than ever layer of active trade unionists in the town.

readily to the IMF bankers, be opened to elected trade union committees, as part of the fight for nationalisation of bankrupt firms.

Comrade Thornett concluded by pointing out the importance of the Conference.

"There may only be a few hundred at this Conference. But it is always the case that the key questions in the workers' movement - the fight for principle and for leadership - are at first qualitative questions. What we are discussing here today the working class will be discussing in the next period.

We see this Conference as the first step in mobilising and leading a much wider struggle against wage control' and in defence of jobs and living standards."

Keith Vaness, platform speaker the Labour Party.

The Labour leaders must be forced to abide by Labour Party policy or be removed. The government must be accountable to Labour Party conference.

While the Labour government ignores the basic needs of the working class which put it in office, CLPs are beginning to resist the retreat.

Joint campaigns against cuts, unemployment and racialism have been started in numerous areas. Many CLPs are fighting to implement the decisions of the Labour Party Conference.

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Yet they have to watch their own MPs in Parliament disregard these struggles or pay lip service to opposition to the Wilson/Callaghan government's betrayals.:

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The outcome of the strike was to confirm that "you cannot win rights through legal machinery" Comrade Groves stressed. 'We were proved right never to have touched the Equal Pay Tribunal."

The success at Trico Sally Groves speaking from the platform have wider implications than that of the Ford women in 1968. It has exposed and smashed aside the Equal Pay Act and exposed what a farce it is. And it has shown we can beat the TUC pay policy, Comrade Groves concluded.