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tolls Royce strikers supporting Grunwick picket of TUC The ACAS recommendation that APEX should be recognised at Grunwick's was finally put to death by the Law Lords last Wednesday 14 December.

The burial of this diversionary body will only bring forward mourners from the ranks of the TUC bureaucracy who saw in its existence a vital tool with which to hold back and fend off demands for action to cut off supplies and services to the lactory. • Ward and his backers in the ruling class were jubilant and not in the least surprised.

Only regret Our only regret is that the corpse travelled so far: from High Court, which found in its favour, to the Court of Appeal, which ruled it void, to find peace in a hole dug for it weeks ago by the 'highest juridical body in the land'.

ndrew Wiard, Report Labour MP Bruce 'Grocott joined the ranks of the 'lefts' overnight and came to the realisation that the 'higher echelons of the judiciary were anti-union and anti-Labour' while veteran 'left MP, Audrey Wise's response was to sponsor a spurious motion in the Commons which expressed 'grave concern at the Law Lords' decision'.

Stalinist AUEW-TASS member of the TUC General Council, Ken Gill, sensing that this might aftect the functioning of his favourite watchdog of the working class remarked sadly that the decision 'drives a nail into the coffin of ACAS APEX General Secretary Roy Grantham, still unsatisfied with the butcher's job he has carried out on the strike so far, promised to do his best to resuscitate the dead recommendation.

Presumably while it does the legal rounds again, the strikers will be waiting for the outcome on the picket lines? Rolls Royce Stalinist Ken Gill Jack Dromey's kaleidoscopic array of about-turns reached a new high when, having just called off a S.E. Region TUC conference on Grunwick (because APEX hadn't given it full support!) he brazenly prophesied that "this dispute can only be won by trade union muscle"

Although we would be the last to disagree with this last statement, regular readers of Socialist Press will recognise that alone against the array of fake- rotskyists reporting Grunwicks, the Workers' Socialist League has pointed to the fact that despite its strength, the trade union movement, with the likes of Jack Jones, Len Murray and Hugh Scanlon at its head, is effectively decapitated.

Determined

So too at a local level, only a leadership determined mobilise whole layers of workers behind the strikers' call for blacking of all supplies and services can lead the way forward to victory.

Roy Grantham has said that any initiative of which he disapproves undertaken by the strikers will result in their suspension from the union.

Because of this intimidation, the strike committee will not be supporting the lobby of the TUC General Council on the 21st.

Yet to even fight for blacking action, in the form of a model resolution to all labour movement bodies, will also result in similar intimidation from their own union Do-or-die In this do-or-die situation, we believe that the strikers