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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to build a revolutionary leadership in the working class to lead the mounting opposition to the betrayals of both 'left' and right wing Labour and trade union leaders and the Communist Party, as they attempt to enforce wage control, sackings, speed-up and public service As workers take up the struggle against these policies they are forced by the sheer weight of forces opposing them to confront political questions. Only with an understanding of the role of the labour bureaucracy and a programme to unite the broadest sections of The Workers Socialist League is the only movement that sets out the political questions to workers and prepare the forms of organisation and the knowledge necessary for the struggle for socialism.

As a result we have been at the forefront of struggles against the cuts, against wage control; for unionisation, and against redundancy. We have done more than any other tendency to fight the introduction of 'workers' participation' in industry. And we have strongly supported the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement, which has set out to show the link between the reactionary policies of the Social Contract and bureaucratic dictatorship in both the unions and But our practical struggle for the continuity of the principles and method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task canfrec to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in the struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to reconSc trere has been a consistent drive within the WS to deepen =s er cr. che movement's understanding of the history and the pese: c'ss of the Fourth International as an essential part of our Moss Evans, General Secretary Elect of the TGWU intervened last week to prevent workers at a Birmingham hotel taking industrial action in support of recognition.

Workers at Birmingham's Imperial Hotel had already agreed to take strike action and a blacking order had been sent out to brewery workers when the order came from Transport House in London to "cool it"

Midlands TGWU official Terry Austin who had made it clear that the order came from Moss Evans immediately tried to contact the shop stewards asking them to suspend action.

Moss Evans' intervention has put a brake on struggle for union recognition at other Birmingham hotels. Moves to press for recognition of the TGWU at two other Birmingham hotels, the Centre Hotel and Penns Hall Hotel, Sutton Coldfield are also being delayed.

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While the hotel workers are expected to sit and wait the national officials of the TGWU and GMWU wrangle over which union has priority in the hotel industry.

The GMWU claims that the TGWU is in breach of a national agreement between the two unions by which the hotel industry is regarded as a GMWU "sphere of influence"

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He was reported by the Birmingham Evening Mail as saying that his members "will become increasingly frustrated the longer it takes to sort the problem out and I can see this frustration boiling over into industrial action."

Terry Austin is not noted for his militancy by Birmingham workers.

He was in charge of the strike at the Trust Houses Forte Night Out restaurant/theatre when it first began five months ago but the Night Out strikers voted no confidence in him and he was replaced by Alan Law.

LAW Since he removed the limited blacking he was organising on THF establishments in the Biri ningham area several months ago, A lan Law -ORKERS

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