Dar ingron strike: sell out bid

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Post to WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 IHR A major assault on the NUJ closed shop strike at Darlington has been made by the General Secretaries of the print unions.

The Printing Industries Committee of the TUC decided to call on all unions involved to send their members back to work without a single concession from the SELL OUT management, so that an "independent" mediator could be called in. This was despite a call from the NUJ Westminster Press Chapel that the strike should be spread.

The move is not only an attack on NUJ members in London and Darlington who have been on the streets for more than 14 weeks-it is also a sellout for the print workers who have supported the strike for seven weeks.

A groundswell of opposition to the move has risen up within the NUJ. The Darlington strikers have voted to stay out while the mediator is at work, the London Office chapel has condemned the move A mass lobby of the NUJ NEC was called this week to force the union executive to maintain the official status of the strike and to keep paying strike pay.

The main task is to keep the NUJ strike solid. Coupled with a major attempt to keep the print unions out in support.

The PIC move is not a sellout of journalists by printers.

The attack is by the bureaucracy of all unions against all members. A joint campaign must be fought against it.

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£50 WAGE TOO MUCH Fulfilling all the hopes of the Stock Exchange speculators, interand CBI leaders, national bankers the TUC have endorsed the so-called "12 mont h rule" by a 74 majority.

Immediately afterwards there was a stampede of bureaucrats rushing to "reluctantly" accept the stage-managed result.

The significance of this vote is therefore far wider reaching than the rule itself. It means that the entire official apparatus that feeds oft the trade union movement has dedicated itself to the task of holding back wage claims for a further year.

It means that the policy The breaking of wage controls would immediately create a massive governmental crisis and could well cause the fall of the present LibLat coalition government, opening the possibility of a fight to establish a socialist programme and new leadership within the Labour Party.

This offers the only prospect for a struggle to defend living standards and end unemployment. This is why our demands are foursquare behind workers who take up this Break pay TUC support workers in pay all struggles.

Regain and defend living standards. For big increases with cost of living clauses to protect against inflation.

Break the Lib-Lab coalition! Demand the "Left" MPs fight to oust Callaghan and Healey!

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